forge command not found

Introduction

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

forge: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: forge: command not found

Solutions to forge: command not found

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

In Ubuntu forge is provided by snap package.

snap is:

SNAP is a general purpose gene finding program suitable for both eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes. SNAP is an acroynm for Semi-HMM-based Nucleic Acid Parser.

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

sudo apt-get -y install snap

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

You can also use apt command to install snap.

sudo apt -y install snap

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

sudo aptitude install snap

Summary

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