How to Install and Uninstall mafft Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "mafft" package

Learn how to install mafft on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall mafft on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                mafft
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mafft package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: mafft
Version: 7.475-1
Installed-Size: 11507
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_7.475-1_amd64.deb
Size: 1050808
MD5sum: 71b88ae966f59f51e447e2961bbfad20
SHA256: 04b2b492f728dc8d39f7f4bfcb87858aa79428896eedd2379868959a970f5c6b