mhap command not found

Introduction

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

mhap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mhap: command not found

Solutions to mhap: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mhap is provided by mhap package.

mhap is:

The MinHash Alignment Process (MHAP–pronounced MAP) is a reference implementation of a probabilistic sequence overlapping algorithm. Designed to efficiently detect all overlaps between noisy long-read sequence data. It efficiently estimates Jaccard similarity by compressing sequences to their representative fingerprints composed on min-mers (minimum k-mer).

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

sudo apt-get -y install mhap

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

You can also use apt command to install mhap.

sudo apt -y install mhap

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

sudo aptitude install mhap

Summary

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