makdbs command not found

Introduction

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

makdbs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: makdbs: command not found

Solutions to makdbs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu makdbs is provided by spaln package.

spaln is:

Spaln (space-efficient spliced alignment) is a stand-alone program that maps and aligns a set of cDNA or protein sequences onto a whole genomic sequence in a single job. It also performs spliced or ordinary alignment after rapid similarity search against a protein sequence database, if a genomic segment or an amino acid sequence is given as a query.

spaln supports a combination of protein sequence database and a given genomic segment and performs rapid similarity searches and (semi-)global alignments of a set of protein sequence queries against a protein sequence database. Spaln adopts multi-phase heuristics that makes it possible to perform the job on a conventional personal computer.

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

sudo apt-get -y install spaln

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

You can also use apt command to install spaln.

sudo apt -y install spaln

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

sudo aptitude install spaln

Summary

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