murasaki-mpi command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix murasaki-mpi command not found error message

Introduction

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

murasaki-mpi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: murasaki-mpi: command not found

Solutions to murasaki-mpi: command not found

How To Fix murasaki-mpi: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu murasaki-mpi is provided by murasaki-mpi package.

murasaki-mpi is:

Murasaki is a scalable and fast, language theory-based homology detection tool across multiple large genomes. It enable whole-genome scale multiple genome global alignments. Supports unlimited length gapped-seed patterns and unique TF-IDF based filtering.

Murasaki is an anchor alignment software, which is

  • exteremely fast (17 CPU hours for whole Human x Mouse genome (with 40 nodes: 52 wall minutes))
  • scalable (Arbitrarily parallelizable across multiple nodes using MPI. Even a single node with 16GB of ram can handle over 1Gbp of sequence.)
  • unlimited pattern length
  • repeat tolerant
  • intelligent noise reduction

This package provides the MPI-enabled binary for murasaki. While this will speed up operation on multi-processor machines it will slow down on a single processor.

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

sudo apt-get -y install murasaki-mpi

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

You can also use apt command to install murasaki-mpi.

sudo apt -y install murasaki-mpi

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

sudo aptitude install murasaki-mpi

Summary

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