hmmpgmd_shard command not found

Introduction

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

hmmpgmd_shard: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hmmpgmd_shard: command not found

Solutions to hmmpgmd_shard: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hmmpgmd_shard is provided by hmmer package.

hmmer is:

HMMER is an implementation of profile hidden Markov model methods for sensitive searches of biological sequence databases using multiple sequence alignments as queries.

Given a multiple sequence alignment as input, HMMER builds a statistical model called a “hidden Markov model” which can then be used as a query into a sequence database to find (and/or align) additional homologues of the sequence family.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hmmer

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

You can also use apt command to install hmmer.

sudo apt -y install hmmer

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

sudo aptitude install hmmer

Summary

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