ncoils command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ncoils command not found error message

Introduction

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

ncoils: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ncoils: command not found

Solutions to ncoils: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ncoils is provided by ncoils package.

ncoils is:

The program predicts the coiled coil secondary structure predictions from protein sequences. The algorithm was published in Lupas, van Dyke & Stock, Predicting coiled coils from protein sequences Science, 252, 1162-1164, 1991.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ncoils

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

You can also use apt command to install ncoils.

sudo apt -y install ncoils

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

sudo aptitude install ncoils

Summary

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