glam2-purge command not found

Introduction

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

glam2-purge: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: glam2-purge: command not found

Solutions to glam2-purge: command not found

How To Fix glam2-purge: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu glam2-purge is provided by glam2 package.

glam2 is:

GLAM2 is a software package for finding motifs in sequences, typically amino-acid or nucleotide sequences. A motif is a re-occurring sequence pattern: typical examples are the TATA box and the CAAX prenylation motif. The main innovation of GLAM2 is that it allows insertions and deletions in motifs.

This package includes programs for discovering motifs shared by a set of sequences and finding matches to these motifs in a sequence database, as well as utilities for converting glam2 motifs to standard alignment formats, masking glam2 motifs out of sequences so that weaker motifs can be found, and removing highly similar members of a set of sequences.

The package includes these programs: glam2: discovering motifs shared by a set of sequences; glam2scan: finding matches, in a sequence database, to a motif discovered by glam2; glam2format: converting glam2 motifs to standard alignment formats; glam2mask: masking glam2 motifs out of sequences, so that weaker motifs can be found; glam2-purge: removing highly similar members of a set of sequences.

In this binary package, the fast Fourier algorithm (FFT) was enabled for the glam2 program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install glam2

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

You can also use apt command to install glam2.

sudo apt -y install glam2

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

sudo aptitude install glam2

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix glam2-purge command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.