nast-ier command not found

Introduction

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

nast-ier: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nast-ier: command not found

Solutions to nast-ier: command not found

How To Fix nast-ier: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu nast-ier is provided by nast-ier package.

nast-ier is:

The NAST-iEr alignment utility aligns a single raw nucleotide sequence against one or more NAST formatted sequences.

The alignment algorithm involves global dynamic programming profile alignment to fixed (NAST-formatted) multiply aligned template sequences without any end-gap penalty.

NAST-iEr is part of the microbiomeutil suite.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nast-ier

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

You can also use apt command to install nast-ier.

sudo apt -y install nast-ier

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

sudo aptitude install nast-ier

Summary

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