fastavalidcds command not found

Introduction

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

fastavalidcds: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fastavalidcds: command not found

Solutions to fastavalidcds: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fastavalidcds is provided by exonerate package.

exonerate is:

Exonerate allows you to align sequences using a many alignment models, using either exhaustive dynamic programming, or a variety of heuristics. Much of the functionality of the Wise dynamic programming suite was reimplemented in C for better efficiency. Exonerate is an intrinsic component of the building of the Ensembl genome databases, providing similarity scores between RNA and DNA sequences and thus determining splice variants and coding sequences in general.

An In-silico PCR Experiment Simulation System (see the ipcress man page) is packaged with exonerate.

This package also comes with a selection of utilities for performing simple manipulations quickly on fasta files beyond 2Gb

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

sudo apt-get -y install exonerate

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

You can also use apt command to install exonerate.

sudo apt -y install exonerate

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

sudo aptitude install exonerate

Summary

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