uc-echo command not found

Introduction

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

uc-echo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: uc-echo: command not found

Solutions to uc-echo: command not found

How To Fix uc-echo: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu uc-echo is provided by uc-echo package.

uc-echo is:

ECHO is an error correction algorithm designed for short-reads from next-generation sequencing platforms such as Illumina’s Genome Analyzer II. The algorithm uses a Bayesian framework to improve the quality of the reads in a given data set by employing maximum a posteriori estimation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install uc-echo

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

You can also use apt command to install uc-echo.

sudo apt -y install uc-echo

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

sudo aptitude install uc-echo

Summary

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