How to Install and Uninstall mothur Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: April 29,2024

1. Install "mothur" package

This guide let you learn how to install mothur on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall mothur on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: mothur
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Installed-Size: 15246
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.36.1-1build1
Provides: uchime
Depends: libboost-iostreams1.58.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0), libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Conflicts: uchime
Filename: pool/universe/m/mothur/mothur_1.36.1-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 4164762
MD5sum: d1979c662eca3c8d659cc25db237489d
SHA1: a9cc55852ab3d62245880fe9c1bc2a27860c49d1
SHA256: 0f9f0adc638336c8b67bea002bb5dd9cac392eaba153fa226d22949baf819e0e
Description-en: sequence analysis suite for research on microbiota
Mothur seeks to develop a single piece of open-source, expandable
software to fill the bioinformatics needs of the microbial ecology
community. It has incorporated the functionality of dotur, sons,
treeclimber, s-libshuff, unifrac, and much more. In addition to improving
the flexibility of these algorithms, a number of other features including
calculators and visualization tools were added.
Description-md5: 1668c70fa8f269cd3253a2880e162cd2
Homepage: http://www.mothur.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu