How to Install and Uninstall mafft Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: December 30,2024

You can also install and uninstall the mafft on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "mafft" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install mafft on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "mafft" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall mafft on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mafft package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mafft
Version: 7.505-1
Installed-Size: 11920
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), perl:any
Recommends: blast2, libwww-perl, lynx, ruby
Enhances: t-coffee
Description: Multiple alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences
Description-md5: a65c32f641729a8e070bd5f7c691875a
Homepage: https://mafft.cbrc.jp/alignment/software/
Tag: biology::format:aln, biology::peptidic, field::biology,
field::biology:bioinformatics, implemented-in::c,
interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, use::comparing,
works-with-format::plaintext, works-with::biological-sequence
Section: science
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mafft/mafft_7.505-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1077772
MD5sum: d100b86165571c969d09c5698029c70b
SHA256: 48f4087e6603d03cb18e7fc41a1b27111ca6710bfe076d2f3b4b068dd03afdec