anfo-tool command not found

Introduction

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

anfo-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: anfo-tool: command not found

Solutions to anfo-tool: command not found

How To Fix anfo-tool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu anfo-tool is provided by anfo package.

anfo is:

Anfo is a mapper in the spirit of Soap/Maq/Bowtie, but its implementation takes more after BLAST/BLAT. It’s most useful for the alignment of sequencing reads where the DNA sequence is somehow modified (think ancient DNA or bisulphite treatment) and/or there is more divergence between sample and reference than what fast mappers will handle gracefully (say the reference genome is missing and a related species is used instead).

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

sudo apt-get -y install anfo

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

You can also use apt command to install anfo.

sudo apt -y install anfo

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

sudo aptitude install anfo

Summary

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