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

Last updated: February 24,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "mothur" package

This tutorial shows how to install mothur on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall mothur 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 mothur package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mothur
Version: 1.48.0-2
Installed-Size: 18450
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Provides: uchime
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libreadline8 (>= 6.0), libstdc++6 (>= 11)
Conflicts: uchime
Description: sequence analysis suite for research on microbiota
Description-md5: 1668c70fa8f269cd3253a2880e162cd2
Homepage: https://www.mothur.org
Tag: role::program
Section: science
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mothur/mothur_1.48.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 5262100
MD5sum: c716e7e82349cf9baf45c11955f81259
SHA256: d80455bbb4f96bd67af47f34c6ae2559e10ad3c3652b553acb9c5072e86c4c62