iva command not found

Introduction

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

iva: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: iva: command not found

Solutions to iva: command not found

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

In Ubuntu iva is provided by iva package.

iva is:

IVA is a de novo assembler designed to assemble virus genomes that have no repeat sequences, using Illumina read pairs sequenced from mixed populations at extremely high depth.

IVA’s main algorithm works by iteratively extending contigs using aligned read pairs. Its input can be just read pairs, or additionally you can provide an existing set of contigs to be extended. Alternatively, it can take reads together with a reference sequence.

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

sudo apt-get -y install iva

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

You can also use apt command to install iva.

sudo apt -y install iva

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

sudo aptitude install iva

Summary

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