slagan-mfa.pl command not found

Introduction

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

slagan-mfa.pl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: slagan-mfa.pl: command not found

Solutions to slagan-mfa.pl: command not found

How To Fix slagan-mfa.pl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu slagan-mfa.pl is provided by lagan package.

lagan is:

Lagan takes local alignments generated by CHAOS as anchors, and limits the search area of the Needleman-Wunsch algorithm around these anchors.

Multi-LAGAN is a generalization of the pairwise algorithm to multiple sequence alignment. M-LAGAN performs progressive pairwise alignments, guided by a user-specified phylogenetic tree. Alignments are aligned to other alignments using the sum-of-pairs metric.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lagan

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

You can also use apt command to install lagan.

sudo apt -y install lagan

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

sudo aptitude install lagan

Summary

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