alter-sequence-alignment command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

alter-sequence-alignment: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: alter-sequence-alignment: command not found

Solutions to alter-sequence-alignment: command not found

How To Fix alter-sequence-alignment: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu alter-sequence-alignment is provided by alter-sequence-alignment package.

alter-sequence-alignment is:

ALTER (ALignment Transformation EnviRonment) is a tool to transform between multiple sequence alignment formats. ALTER focuses on the specifications of mainstream alignment and analysis programs rather than on the conversion among more or less specific formats.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install alter-sequence-alignment

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install alter-sequence-alignment.

sudo apt -y install alter-sequence-alignment

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install alter-sequence-alignment

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix alter-sequence-alignment command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.