edlib-aligner command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix edlib-aligner command not found error message

Introduction

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

edlib-aligner: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: edlib-aligner: command not found

In Ubuntu edlib-aligner is provided by edlib-aligner package.

edlib-aligner is:

Edlib is a lightweight and super fast C/C++ library for sequence alignment using edit distance. This package provides an aligner using this library.

Features of libedlib

Calculates edit distance (Levehnstein distance).
It can find optimal alignment path (instructions how to transform first sequence into the second sequence).
It can find just the start and/or end locations of alignment path - can be useful when speed is more important than having exact alignment path.
Supports multiple alignment methods: global(NW), prefix(SHW) and infix(HW), each of them useful for different scenarios.
You can extend character equality definition, enabling you to e.g. have wildcard characters, to have case insensitive alignment or to work with degenerate nucleotides.
It can easily handle small or very large sequences, even when finding alignment path, while consuming very little memory.
Super fast thanks to Myers’s bit-vector algorithm.

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

sudo apt-get -y install edlib-aligner

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

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

sudo apt -y install edlib-aligner

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

sudo aptitude install edlib-aligner

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