MSPCollect command not found

Introduction

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

MSPCollect: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: MSPCollect: command not found

Solutions to MSPCollect: command not found

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

In Ubuntu MSPCollect is provided by repeatmasker-recon package.

repeatmasker-recon is:

The RECON package implements a de novo algorithm for the identification of repeat families from biological sequences.

The program implements an approach for the de novo identification and classification of repeat sequence families that is based on extensions to the usual approach of single linkage clustering of local pairwise alignments between genomic sequences. The extensions use multiple alignment information to define the boundaries of individual copies of the repeats and to distinguish homologous but distinct repeat element families. When tested on the human genome, this approach was able to properly identify and group known transposable elements. The program, should be useful for first-pass automatic classification of repeats in newly sequenced genomes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install repeatmasker-recon

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

You can also use apt command to install repeatmasker-recon.

sudo apt -y install repeatmasker-recon

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

sudo aptitude install repeatmasker-recon

Summary

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