pc-compare command not found

Introduction

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

pc-compare: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pc-compare: command not found

Solutions to pc-compare: command not found

How To Fix pc-compare: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pc-compare is provided by probcons-extra package.

probcons-extra is:

Contains the convert, project and makgnuplot programs from the probcons package, which have been renamed to pc-compare, pc-project and pc-makegnuplot respectively to avoid collisions with other program names. These programs are mostly useful for testing purposes and are not required for the normal usage of Probcons.

Probcons is a tool for generating multiple alignments of protein sequences.

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

sudo apt-get -y install probcons-extra

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

You can also use apt command to install probcons-extra.

sudo apt -y install probcons-extra

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

sudo aptitude install probcons-extra

Summary

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