bowtie-build-s-debug command not found

Introduction

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

bowtie-build-s-debug: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bowtie-build-s-debug: command not found

Solutions to bowtie-build-s-debug: command not found

How To Fix bowtie-build-s-debug: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu bowtie-build-s-debug is provided by bowtie package.

bowtie is:

This package addresses the problem to interpret the results from the latest (2010) DNA sequencing technologies. Those will yield fairly short stretches and those cannot be interpreted directly. It is the challenge for tools like Bowtie to give a chromosomal location to the short stretches of DNA sequenced per run.

Bowtie aligns short DNA sequences (reads) to the human genome at a rate of over 25 million 35-bp reads per hour. Bowtie indexes the genome with a Burrows-Wheeler index to keep its memory footprint small: typically about 2.2 GB for the human genome (2.9 GB for paired-end).

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

sudo apt-get -y install bowtie

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

You can also use apt command to install bowtie.

sudo apt -y install bowtie

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

sudo aptitude install bowtie

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix bowtie-build-s-debug command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.