TMalign command not found

Introduction

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

TMalign: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: TMalign: command not found

Solutions to TMalign: command not found

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

In Ubuntu TMalign is provided by tm-align package.

tm-align is:

TM-align is a computer algorithm for protein structure alignment using dynamic programming. The scoring is performed by the TM-score rotation matrix. This is similar to the RMSD in that unaligned portions of the structure influence the scoring less than the more structurally conserved regions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tm-align

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

You can also use apt command to install tm-align.

sudo apt -y install tm-align

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

sudo aptitude install tm-align

Summary

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