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

Last updated: May 15,2024

1. Install "mothur-mpi" package

Learn how to install mothur-mpi on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install mothur-mpi

2. Uninstall "mothur-mpi" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall mothur-mpi on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):

$ sudo apt remove mothur-mpi $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the mothur-mpi package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: mothur-mpi
Priority: optional
Section: universe/science
Installed-Size: 15101
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Source: mothur
Version: 1.36.1-1build1
Depends: libboost-iostreams1.58.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0), libopenmpi1.10, libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), mothur, openmpi-bin
Filename: pool/universe/m/mothur/mothur-mpi_1.36.1-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 4143414
MD5sum: ffa3590755978e330259ecee0d5ff1d6
SHA1: 78a130ff887c2eadca52dcc9a2c3b85f30ac75a4
SHA256: 9c99a32bf1c34e2bb343cac4110af8aa22e395de1ce511b989a50abd105663d3
Description-en: mpi-enabled binary for mothur
Provides the MPI-enabled binary for Mothur
This is recommended for operations like shhh.flows which will be
very slow on a single processor.
Description-md5: cbeab5d25b37b15d6c224010d948861c
Homepage: http://www.mothur.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

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