ngsfilter command not found

Introduction

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

ngsfilter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ngsfilter: command not found

Solutions to ngsfilter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ngsfilter is provided by obitools package.

obitools is:

The OBITools programs aims to help you to manipulate various data and sequence files in a convenient way using the Unix command line interface. They follow the standard Unix interface for command line program, allowing to chain a set of commands using the pipe mechanism.

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

sudo apt-get -y install obitools

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

You can also use apt command to install obitools.

sudo apt -y install obitools

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

sudo aptitude install obitools

Summary

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