spoa command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix spoa command not found error message

Introduction

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

spoa: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spoa: command not found

Solutions to spoa: command not found

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

In Ubuntu spoa is provided by spoa package.

spoa is:

Spoa (SIMD POA) is a c++ implementation of the partial order alignment (POA) algorithm (as described in 10.1093/bioinformatics/18.3.452) which is used to generate consensus sequences (as described in 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg109). It supports three alignment modes: local (Smith-Waterman), global (Needleman-Wunsch) and semi-global alignment (overlap).

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

sudo apt-get -y install spoa

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

You can also use apt command to install spoa.

sudo apt -y install spoa

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

sudo aptitude install spoa

Summary

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