simkaMerge command not found

Introduction

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

simkaMerge: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: simkaMerge: command not found

Solutions to simkaMerge: command not found

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

In Ubuntu simkaMerge is provided by simka package.

simka is:

Simka is a de novo comparative metagenomics tool. Simka represents each dataset as a k-mer spectrum and compute several classical ecological distances between them.

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

sudo apt-get -y install simka

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

You can also use apt command to install simka.

sudo apt -y install simka

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

sudo aptitude install simka

Summary

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