em_pscan command not found

Introduction

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

em_pscan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: em_pscan: command not found

Solutions to em_pscan: command not found

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

In Ubuntu em_pscan is provided by emboss package.

emboss is:

EMBOSS is a free Open Source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology (e.g. EMBnet) user community. The software automatically copes with data in a variety of formats and even allows transparent retrieval of sequence data from the web. Also, as extensive libraries are provided with the package, it is a platform to allow other scientists to develop and release software in true open source spirit. EMBOSS also integrates a range of currently available packages and tools for sequence analysis into a seamless whole. EMBOSS breaks the historical trend towards commercial software packages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install emboss

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

You can also use apt command to install emboss.

sudo apt -y install emboss

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

sudo aptitude install emboss

Summary

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