fastp command not found

Introduction

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

fastp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fastp: command not found

Solutions to fastp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fastp is provided by fastp package.

fastp is:

All-in-one FASTQ preprocessor, fastp provides functions including quality profiling, adapter trimming, read filtering and base correction. It supports both single-end and paired-end short read data and also provides basic support for long-read data.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fastp

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

You can also use apt command to install fastp.

sudo apt -y install fastp

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

sudo aptitude install fastp

Summary

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