seqsplit command not found

Introduction

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

seqsplit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: seqsplit: command not found

Solutions to seqsplit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu seqsplit is provided by biosquid package.

biosquid is:

SQUID is a library of C code functions for sequence analysis. It also includes a number of small utility programs to convert, show statistics, manipulate and do other functions on sequence files.

The original name of the package is “squid”, but since there is already a squid on the archive (a proxy cache), it was renamed to “biosquid”.

This package contains some tools to demonstrate the features of the SQUID library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install biosquid

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

You can also use apt command to install biosquid.

sudo apt -y install biosquid

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

sudo aptitude install biosquid

Summary

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