flexbar command not found

Introduction

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

flexbar: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: flexbar: command not found

Solutions to flexbar: command not found

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

In Ubuntu flexbar is provided by flexbar package.

flexbar is:

Flexbar preprocesses high-throughput sequencing data efficiently. It demultiplexes barcoded runs and removes adapter sequences. Moreover, trimming and filtering features are provided. Flexbar increases mapping rates and improves genome and transcriptome assemblies. It supports next-generation sequencing data in fasta/q and csfasta/q format from Illumina, Roche 454, and the SOLiD platform.

Parameter names changed in Flexbar. Please review scripts. The recent months, default settings were optimised, several bugs were fixed and various improvements were made, e.g. revamped command-line interface, new trimming modes as well as lower time and memory requirements.

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

sudo apt-get -y install flexbar

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

You can also use apt command to install flexbar.

sudo apt -y install flexbar

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

sudo aptitude install flexbar

Summary

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