Complete Guide: Installing blast2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2024

1. Install "blast2" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install blast2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                blast2
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "blast2" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall blast2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                blast2
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the blast2 package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: blast2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Installed-Size: 1261
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Source: ncbi-tools6 (6.1.20120620-10)
Version: 1:2.2.26.20120620-10
Depends: libncbi6 (<< 6.1.20120620.1), libncbi6 (>= 6.1.20120620), libc6 (>= 2.14)
Suggests: libvibrant6b, ncbi-rrna-data, ncbi-tools-bin, ncbi-tools-x11
Conflicts: ncbi-blast
Filename: pool/universe/n/ncbi-tools6/blast2_2.2.26.20120620-10_amd64.deb
Size: 519606
MD5sum: 6f4a4518ff50f8c7d788b7cfb6e659f7
SHA1: 21ffa095f1c7805906696ef2fa4b5ad2274f743f
SHA256: 04d1ccfcbfb80740f38814632d52d79dcc103b4ebdd81465013e8bbd1aa13b49
Description-en: Basic Local Alignment Search Tool
The famous sequence alignment program. This is "official" NCBI version,
#2. The blastall executable allows you to give a nucleotide or protein
sequence to the program. It is compared against databases and a summary of
matches is returned to the user.
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Note that databases are not included in Debian; they must be retrieved
manually.
Description-md5: bd82b4e0688ff1a5c7879b1f834a361b
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/BLAST/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu