megahit command not found

Introduction

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

megahit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: megahit: command not found

Solutions to megahit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu megahit is provided by megahit package.

megahit is:

Megahit is an ultra-fast and memory-efficient NGS assembler. It is optimized for metagenomes, but also works well on generic single genome assembly (small or mammalian size) and single-cell assembly.

The software was praised in a Briefings in Bioinformatics 5/2020 review (DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa085).

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

sudo apt-get -y install megahit

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

You can also use apt command to install megahit.

sudo apt -y install megahit

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

sudo aptitude install megahit

Summary

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