filter_hssp command not found

Introduction

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

filter_hssp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: filter_hssp: command not found

Solutions to filter_hssp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu filter_hssp is provided by profphd-utils package.

profphd-utils is:

The package provides the following binary utilities: convert_seq, filter_hssp. These are used by prof from the profphd package: a secondary structure, accessibility and transmembrane helix predictor from Burkhard Rost.

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

sudo apt-get -y install profphd-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install profphd-utils.

sudo apt -y install profphd-utils

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

sudo aptitude install profphd-utils

Summary

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