clustalo command not found

Introduction

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

clustalo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clustalo: command not found

Solutions to clustalo: command not found

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

In Ubuntu clustalo is provided by clustalo package.

clustalo is:

Clustal Omega is a general-purpose multiple sequence alignment (MSA) program, primarily for amino-acid sequences. It produces high quality MSAs and is capable of handling data sets of hundreds of thousands of sequences in reasonable time, using multiple processors where available.

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

sudo apt-get -y install clustalo

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

You can also use apt command to install clustalo.

sudo apt -y install clustalo

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

sudo aptitude install clustalo

Summary

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