fml-asm command not found

Introduction

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

fml-asm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fml-asm: command not found

Solutions to fml-asm: command not found

How To Fix fml-asm: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fml-asm is provided by fml-asm package.

fml-asm is:

Fml-asm is a command-line tool for assembling Illumina short reads in regions from 100bp to 10 million bp in size, based on the fermi-lite library. It is largely a light-weight in-memory version of fermikit without generating any intermediate files. It inherits the performance, the relatively small memory footprint and the features of fermikit. In particular, fermi-lite is able to retain heterozygous events and thus can be used to assemble diploid regions for the purpose of variant calling.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fml-asm

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

You can also use apt command to install fml-asm.

sudo apt -y install fml-asm

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

sudo aptitude install fml-asm

Summary

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