comet-ms command not found

Introduction

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

comet-ms: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: comet-ms: command not found

Solutions to comet-ms: command not found

How To Fix comet-ms: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu comet-ms is provided by comet-ms package.

comet-ms is:

Comet is an open source tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) sequence database search engine. It identifies peptides by searching MS/MS spectra against sequences present in protein sequence databases.

This package ships a binary that does MS/MS database searches. Supported input formats are mzXML, mzML, and ms2 files. Supported output formats are .out, SQT, and pepXML.

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

sudo apt-get -y install comet-ms

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

You can also use apt command to install comet-ms.

sudo apt -y install comet-ms

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

sudo aptitude install comet-ms

Summary

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