poa command not found

Introduction

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

poa: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: poa: command not found

Solutions to poa: command not found

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

In Ubuntu poa is provided by poa package.

poa is:

POA is Partial Order Alignment, a fast program for multiple sequence alignment (MSA) in bioinformatics. Its advantages are speed, scalability, sensitivity, and the superior ability to handle branching / indels in the alignment. Partial order alignment is an approach to MSA, which can be combined with existing methods such as progressive alignment. POA optimally aligns a pair of MSAs and which therefore can be applied directly to progressive alignment methods such as CLUSTAL. For large alignments, Progressive POA is 10-30 times faster than CLUSTALW.

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

sudo apt-get -y install poa

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

You can also use apt command to install poa.

sudo apt -y install poa

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

sudo aptitude install poa

Summary

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