tigr-glimmer command not found

Introduction

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

tigr-glimmer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tigr-glimmer: command not found

Solutions to tigr-glimmer: command not found

How To Fix tigr-glimmer: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu tigr-glimmer is provided by tigr-glimmer package.

tigr-glimmer is:

Developed by the TIGR institute this software detects coding sequences in bacteria and archea.

Glimmer is a system for finding genes in microbial DNA, especially the genomes of bacteria and archaea. Glimmer (Gene Locator and Interpolated Markov Modeler) uses interpolated Markov models (IMMs) to identify the coding regions and distinguish them from noncoding DNA.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tigr-glimmer

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

You can also use apt command to install tigr-glimmer.

sudo apt -y install tigr-glimmer

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

sudo aptitude install tigr-glimmer

Summary

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