gmer_counter command not found

Introduction

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

gmer_counter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gmer_counter: command not found

Solutions to gmer_counter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gmer_counter 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 gmer_counter command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.