merci command not found

Introduction

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

merci: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: merci: command not found

Solutions to merci: command not found

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

In Ubuntu merci is provided by minia package.

minia is:

What was referred to as “next-generation” DNA sequencing up to the year 2020 delivered only “short” reads up to ~600 base pairs in length that would then have to be puzzled by random overlaps in their sequence towards a complete genome. This is the genome assembly. And there are many biological pitfalls on long stretches of low complexity regions and copy number variations and other sorts of redundancies that render this difficult.

This package provides a short-read DNA sequence assembler based on a de Bruijn graph, capable of assembling a human genome on a desktop computer in a day.

The output of Minia is a set of contigs, i.e. stretches of gap-free linear overlaps of short reads. In the best possible case this is a whole chromosome.

Minia produces results of similar contiguity and accuracy to other de Bruijn assemblers (e.g. Velvet).

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

sudo apt-get -y install minia

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

You can also use apt command to install minia.

sudo apt -y install minia

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

sudo aptitude install minia

Summary

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