getmlst command not found

Introduction

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

getmlst: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: getmlst: command not found

Solutions to getmlst: command not found

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

In Ubuntu getmlst is provided by srst2 package.

srst2 is:

This program is designed to take Illumina sequence data, a MLST database and/or a database of gene sequences (e.g. resistance genes, virulence genes, etc) and report the presence of STs and/or reference genes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install srst2

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

You can also use apt command to install srst2.

sudo apt -y install srst2

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

sudo aptitude install srst2

Summary

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