arb command not found

Introduction

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

arb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: arb: command not found

Solutions to arb: command not found

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

In Ubuntu arb is provided by arb package.

arb is:

ARB is a graphical suite of tools for sequence database handling and data analysis. A central database of processed (aligned) sequences and any type of additional data linked to the sequence entries is structured according to phylogeny or other user-defined criteria.

The ARB project (from the Latin “arbor”, a tree) is a joint initiative of the Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie and the LRR of the Technische Universität München in 1992. Since 2014 the ARB project is continued by the Department of Molecular Ecology http://www.mpi-bremen.de/en/Department_of_Molecular_Ecology.html at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen in cooperation with Ribocon GmbH http://www.ribocon.com .

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

sudo apt-get -y install arb

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

You can also use apt command to install arb.

sudo apt -y install arb

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

sudo aptitude install arb

Summary

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