dssp command not found

Introduction

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

dssp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dssp: command not found

Solutions to dssp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dssp is provided by dssp package.

dssp is:

DSSP is an application you use to assign the secondary structure of a protein based on its solved three dimensional (3D) structure.

This version (4.0) of DSSP is a rewrite that writes annotated mmCIF files by default but can still produce the older dssp format. New is also the support of PP helices.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dssp

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

You can also use apt command to install dssp.

sudo apt -y install dssp

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

sudo aptitude install dssp

Summary

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