emboss software package provides the european molecular biology open software suite, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install emboss
emboss is installed in your system.
Make ensure the emboss package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep emboss *
You will get with emboss package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Science |
| Package | emboss |
| Version | 6.3.1-6ubuntu3 |
| Description | the european molecular biology open software suite |
| Sub Section | Science |