diamond command not found

Introduction

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

diamond: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: diamond: command not found

Solutions to diamond: command not found

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

In Ubuntu diamond is provided by diamond-aligner package.

diamond-aligner is:

DIAMOND is a sequence aligner for protein and translated DNA searches and functions as a drop-in replacement for the NCBI BLAST software tools. It is suitable for protein-protein search as well as DNA-protein search on short reads and longer sequences including contigs and assemblies, providing a speedup of BLAST ranging up to x20,000.

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

sudo apt-get -y install diamond-aligner

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

You can also use apt command to install diamond-aligner.

sudo apt -y install diamond-aligner

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

sudo aptitude install diamond-aligner

Summary

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