gthconsensus command not found

Introduction

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

gthconsensus: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gthconsensus: command not found

Solutions to gthconsensus: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gthconsensus is provided by genomethreader package.

genomethreader is:

GenomeThreader is a software tool to compute gene structure predictions. The gene structure predictions are calculated using a similarity-based approach where additional cDNA/EST and/or protein sequences are used to predict gene structures via spliced alignments. GenomeThreader was motivated by disabling limitations in GeneSeqer, a popular gene prediction program which is widely used for plant genome annotation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install genomethreader

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

You can also use apt command to install genomethreader.

sudo apt -y install genomethreader

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

sudo aptitude install genomethreader

Summary

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