jaligner command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix jaligner command not found error message

Introduction

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

jaligner: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jaligner: command not found

Solutions to jaligner: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jaligner is provided by jaligner package.

jaligner is:

JAligner is an open source Java implementation of the Smith-Waterman algorithm with Gotoh’s improvement for biological local pairwise sequence alignment with the affine gap penalty model.

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

sudo apt-get -y install jaligner

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

You can also use apt command to install jaligner.

sudo apt -y install jaligner

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

sudo aptitude install jaligner

Summary

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