filtlong command not found

Introduction

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

filtlong: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: filtlong: command not found

Solutions to filtlong: command not found

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

In Ubuntu filtlong is provided by filtlong package.

filtlong is:

Filtlong is a tool for filtering long reads by quality. It can take a set of long reads and produce a smaller, better subset. It uses both read length (longer is better) and read identity (higher is better) when choosing which reads pass the filter.

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

sudo apt-get -y install filtlong

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

You can also use apt command to install filtlong.

sudo apt -y install filtlong

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

sudo aptitude install filtlong

Summary

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