fastANI command not found

Introduction

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

fastANI: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fastANI: command not found

Solutions to fastANI: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fastANI is provided by fastani package.

fastani is:

ANI is defined as mean nucleotide identity of orthologous gene pairs shared between two microbial genomes. FastANI supports pairwise comparison of both complete and draft genome assemblies.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fastani

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

You can also use apt command to install fastani.

sudo apt -y install fastani

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

sudo aptitude install fastani

Summary

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