boxshade command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix boxshade command not found error message

Introduction

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

boxshade: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: boxshade: command not found

Solutions to boxshade: command not found

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

In Ubuntu boxshade is provided by boxshade package.

boxshade is:

Boxshade is a program for creating good looking printouts from multiple-aligned protein or DNA sequences. The program does not perform the alignment by itself and requires as input a file that was created by a multiple alignment program or manually edited with respective tools.

Boxshade reads multiple-aligned sequences from either PILEUP-MSF, CLUSTAL-ALN, MALIGNED-data and ESEE-save files (limited to a maximum of 150 sequences with up to 10000 elements each). Various kinds of shading can be applied to identical/similar residues. Output is written to screen or to a file in the following formats: ANSI/VT100, PS/EPS, RTF, HPGL, ReGIS, LJ250-printer, ASCII, xFIG, PICT, HTML

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

sudo apt-get -y install boxshade

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

You can also use apt command to install boxshade.

sudo apt -y install boxshade

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

sudo aptitude install boxshade

Summary

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