coils-wrap command not found

Introduction

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

coils-wrap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: coils-wrap: command not found

Solutions to coils-wrap: command not found

How To Fix coils-wrap: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu coils-wrap is provided by ncoils package.

ncoils is:

The program predicts the coiled coil secondary structure predictions from protein sequences. The algorithm was published in Lupas, van Dyke & Stock, Predicting coiled coils from protein sequences Science, 252, 1162-1164, 1991.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ncoils

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

You can also use apt command to install ncoils.

sudo apt -y install ncoils

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

sudo aptitude install ncoils

Summary

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