probcons command not found

Introduction

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

probcons: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: probcons: command not found

Solutions to probcons: command not found

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

In Ubuntu probcons is provided by probcons package.

probcons is:

Tool for generating multiple alignments of protein sequences. Using a combination of probabilistic modeling and consistency-based alignment techniques, PROBCONS has achieved the highest accuracies of all alignment methods to date. On the BAliBASE benchmark alignment database, alignments produced by PROBCONS show statistically significant improvement over current programs, containing an average of 7% more correctly aligned columns than those of T-Coffee, 11% more correctly aligned columns than those of CLUSTAL W, and 14% more correctly aligned columns than those of DIALIGN.

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

sudo apt-get -y install probcons

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

You can also use apt command to install probcons.

sudo apt -y install probcons

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

sudo aptitude install probcons

Summary

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