mkstatic command not found

Introduction

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

mkstatic: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mkstatic: command not found

Solutions to mkstatic: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mkstatic is provided by emboss-explorer package.

emboss-explorer is:

EMBOSS explorer is a web-based graphical user interface to the EMBOSS suite of bioinformatics tools. It is written in Perl.

If you use the Apache HTTP server, you will at most have to restart it before using EMBOSS explorer. For other web servers, you will have to do the configuration by yourself.

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

sudo apt-get -y install emboss-explorer

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

You can also use apt command to install emboss-explorer.

sudo apt -y install emboss-explorer

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

sudo aptitude install emboss-explorer

Summary

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