catfishq command not found

Introduction

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

catfishq: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: catfishq: command not found

Solutions to catfishq: command not found

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

In Ubuntu catfishq is provided by catfishq package.

catfishq is:

FASTQ is the most common format to store the reads from high-throughput biological sequencing. This tool takes paths to an arbritary number of zipped and unzipped FASTQ files and/or folders containing zipped or unzipped FASTQ files, concatenates them and prints them to standard out (default) or an unzipped output file.

Supported file extensions are: ‘.fastq’, ‘.fastq.gz’, ‘.fasta’, ‘.fasta.gz’, ‘.fa’, ‘.fa.gz’, ‘.fq’, ‘.fq.gz’

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

sudo apt-get -y install catfishq

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

You can also use apt command to install catfishq.

sudo apt -y install catfishq

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

sudo aptitude install catfishq

Summary

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