glistcompare command not found

Introduction

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

glistcompare: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: glistcompare: command not found

Solutions to glistcompare: command not found

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

In Ubuntu glistcompare is provided by genometester package.

genometester is:

Toolkit for performing set operations - union, intersection and complement - on k-mer lists.

GenomeTester4 toolkit, which contains a novel tool GListCompare for performing union, intersection and complement (difference) set operations on k-mer lists. It contains examples of how these general operations can be combined to solve a variety of biological analysis tasks.

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

sudo apt-get -y install genometester

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

You can also use apt command to install genometester.

sudo apt -y install genometester

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

sudo aptitude install genometester

Summary

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