readseq command not found

Introduction

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

readseq: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: readseq: command not found

Solutions to readseq: command not found

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

In Ubuntu readseq is provided by readseq package.

readseq is:

Reads and writes nucleic/protein sequences in various formats. Data files may have multiple sequences. Readseq is particularly useful as it automatically detects many sequence formats, and converts between them.

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

sudo apt-get -y install readseq

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

You can also use apt command to install readseq.

sudo apt -y install readseq

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

sudo aptitude install readseq

Summary

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