tantan command not found

Introduction

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

tantan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tantan: command not found

Solutions to tantan: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tantan is provided by tantan package.

tantan is:

tantan is a tool to mask simple regions (low complexity and short-period tandem repeats) in DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. The aim of tantan is to prevent false predictions when searching for homologous regions between two sequences. Simple repeats often align strongly to each other, causing false homology predictions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tantan

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

You can also use apt command to install tantan.

sudo apt -y install tantan

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

sudo aptitude install tantan

Summary

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