alien_hunter command not found

Introduction

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

alien_hunter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: alien_hunter: command not found

Solutions to alien_hunter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu alien_hunter is provided by alien-hunter package.

alien-hunter is:

Alien_hunter is an application for the prediction of putative Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) events with the implementation of Interpolated Variable Order Motifs (IVOMs). An IVOM approach exploits compositional biases using variable order motif distributions and captures more reliably the local composition of a sequence compared to fixed-order methods. Optionally the predictions can be parsed into a 2-state 2nd order Hidden Markov Model (HMM), in a change-point detection framework, to optimize the localization of the boundaries of the predicted regions. The predictions (embl format) can be automatically loaded into Artemis genome viewer freely available at: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/Artemis/.

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

sudo apt-get -y install alien-hunter

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

You can also use apt command to install alien-hunter.

sudo apt -y install alien-hunter

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

sudo aptitude install alien-hunter

Summary

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