readucks command not found

Introduction

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

readucks: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: readucks: command not found

Solutions to readucks: command not found

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

In Ubuntu readucks is provided by readucks package.

readucks is:

This package is inspired by the demultiplexing options in porechop but without the adapter trimming options - it just demuxes. It uses the parasail library with its Python bindings to do pairwise alignment which provides a considerable speed up over the seqan library used by porechop due to its low-level use of vector processor instructions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install readucks

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

You can also use apt command to install readucks.

sudo apt -y install readucks

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

sudo aptitude install readucks

Summary

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