ssematch command not found

Introduction

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

ssematch: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ssematch: command not found

Solutions to ssematch: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ssematch is provided by embassy-domainatrix package.

embassy-domainatrix is:

The DOMAINATRIX programs were developed by Jon Ison and colleagues at MRC HGMP for their protein domain research. They are included as an EMBASSY package as a work in progress.

Applications in the current domainatrix release are cathparse (generates DCF file from raw CATH files), domainnr (removes redundant domains from a DCF file), domainreso (removes low resolution domains from a DCF file), domainseqs (adds sequence records to a DCF file), domainsse (adds secondary structure records to a DCF file), scopparse (generates DCF file from raw SCOP files) and ssematch (searches a DCF file for secondary structure matches).

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

sudo apt-get -y install embassy-domainatrix

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

You can also use apt command to install embassy-domainatrix.

sudo apt -y install embassy-domainatrix

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

sudo aptitude install embassy-domainatrix

Summary

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