amap command not found

Introduction

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

amap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: amap: command not found

Solutions to amap: command not found

How To Fix amap: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu amap is provided by amap-align package.

amap-align is:

AMAP is a command line tool to perform multiple alignment of peptidic sequences. It utilizes posterior decoding, and a sequence-annealing alignment, instead of the traditional progressive alignment method. It is the only alignment program that allows one to control the sensitivity / specificity tradeoff. It is based on the ProbCons source code, but uses alignment metric accuracy and eliminates the consistency transformation.

The Java visualisation tool of AMAP 2.2 is not yet packaged in Debian.

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

sudo apt-get -y install amap-align

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

You can also use apt command to install amap-align.

sudo apt -y install amap-align

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

sudo aptitude install amap-align

Summary

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