prokka command not found

Introduction

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

prokka: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prokka: command not found

Solutions to prokka: command not found

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

In Ubuntu prokka is provided by prokka package.

prokka is:

A typical 4 Mbp genome can be fully annotated in less than 10 minutes on a quad-core computer, and scales well to 32 core SMP systems. It produces GFF3, GBK and SQN files that are ready for editing in Sequin and ultimately submitted to Genbank/DDJB/ENA.

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

sudo apt-get -y install prokka

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

You can also use apt command to install prokka.

sudo apt -y install prokka

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

sudo aptitude install prokka

Summary

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