DistanceEst command not found

Introduction

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

DistanceEst: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: DistanceEst: command not found

Solutions to DistanceEst: command not found

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

In Ubuntu DistanceEst is provided by abyss package.

abyss is:

ABySS is a de novo, parallel, sequence assembler that is designed for short reads. It may be used to assemble genome or transcriptome sequence data. Parallelization is achieved using MPI, OpenMP and pthread.

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

sudo apt-get -y install abyss

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

You can also use apt command to install abyss.

sudo apt -y install abyss

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

sudo aptitude install abyss

Summary

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