muscle command not found

Introduction

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

muscle: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: muscle: command not found

Solutions to muscle: command not found

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

In Ubuntu muscle is provided by muscle package.

muscle is:

MUSCLE is a multiple alignment program for protein sequences. MUSCLE stands for multiple sequence comparison by log-expectation. In the authors tests, MUSCLE achieved the highest scores of all tested programs on several alignment accuracy benchmarks, and is also one of the fastest programs out there.

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

sudo apt-get -y install muscle

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

You can also use apt command to install muscle.

sudo apt -y install muscle

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

sudo aptitude install muscle

Summary

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