sga-astat command not found

Introduction

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

sga-astat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sga-astat: command not found

Solutions to sga-astat: command not found

How To Fix sga-astat: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sga-astat is provided by sga package.

sga is:

The major goal of SGA is to be very memory efficient, which is achieved by using a compressed representation of DNA sequence reads.

SGA is a de novo assembler for DNA sequence reads. It is based on Gene Myers' string graph formulation of assembly and uses the FM-index/Burrows-Wheeler transform to efficiently find overlaps between sequence reads.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sga

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

You can also use apt command to install sga.

sudo apt -y install sga

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

sudo aptitude install sga

Summary

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