kalign command not found

Introduction

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

kalign: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kalign: command not found

Solutions to kalign: command not found

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

In Ubuntu kalign is provided by kalign package.

kalign is:

Kalign is a command line tool to perform multiple alignment of biological sequences. It employs the Muth-Manber string-matching algorithm, to improve both the accuracy and speed of the alignment. It uses global, progressive alignment approach, enriched by employing an approximate string-matching algorithm to calculate sequence distances and by incorporating local matches into the otherwise global alignment.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kalign

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

You can also use apt command to install kalign.

sudo apt -y install kalign

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

sudo aptitude install kalign

Summary

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