plasmidseeker command not found

Introduction

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

plasmidseeker: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: plasmidseeker: command not found

Solutions to plasmidseeker: command not found

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

In Ubuntu plasmidseeker is provided by plasmidseeker package.

plasmidseeker is:

PlasmidSeeker is a k-mer based program for the identification of known plasmids from bacterial whole genome sequencing reads.

PlasmidSeeker that enables the detection of plasmids from bacterial WGS data without read assembly. The PlasmidSeeker algorithm is based on k-mers and uses k-mer abundance to distinguish between plasmid and bacterial sequences. The performance of PlasmidSeeker was tested on a set of simulated and real bacterial WGS samples, resulting in 100% sensitivity and 99.98% specificity.

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

sudo apt-get -y install plasmidseeker

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

You can also use apt command to install plasmidseeker.

sudo apt -y install plasmidseeker

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

sudo aptitude install plasmidseeker

Summary

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