macsydata command not found

Introduction

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

macsydata: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: macsydata: command not found

Solutions to macsydata: command not found

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

In Ubuntu macsydata is provided by macsyfinder package.

macsyfinder is:

MacSyFinder is a program to model and detect macromolecular systems, genetic pathways… in protein datasets. In prokaryotes, these systems have often evolutionarily conserved properties: they are made of conserved components, and are encoded in compact loci (conserved genetic architecture). The user models these systems with MacSyFinder to reflect these conserved features, and to allow their efficient detection

This package presents the Open Source Java API to biological databases and a series of mostly sequence-based algorithms.

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

sudo apt-get -y install macsyfinder

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

You can also use apt command to install macsyfinder.

sudo apt -y install macsyfinder

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

sudo aptitude install macsyfinder

Summary

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