mapDamage command not found

Introduction

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

mapDamage: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mapDamage: command not found

Solutions to mapDamage: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mapDamage is provided by mapdamage package.

mapdamage is:

MapDamage is a computational framework written in Python and R, which tracks and quantifies DNA damage patterns among ancient DNA sequencing reads generated by Next-Generation Sequencing platforms.

MapDamage is developed at the Centre for GeoGenetics by the Orlando Group.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mapdamage

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

You can also use apt command to install mapdamage.

sudo apt -y install mapdamage

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

sudo aptitude install mapdamage

Summary

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