svim command not found

Introduction

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

svim: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: svim: command not found

Solutions to svim: command not found

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

In Ubuntu svim is provided by svim package.

svim is:

SVIM is a structural variant caller for long sequencing reads. It is able to detect, classify and genotype five different classes of structural variants. Unlike existing methods, SVIM integrates information from across the genome to precisely distinguish similar events, such as tandem and interspersed duplications and simple insertions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install svim

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

You can also use apt command to install svim.

sudo apt -y install svim

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

sudo aptitude install svim

Summary

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