parasail_aligner command not found

Introduction

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

parasail_aligner: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: parasail_aligner: command not found

Solutions to parasail_aligner: command not found

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

In Ubuntu parasail_aligner is provided by parasail package.

parasail is:

This package contains a command-line aligner based on libparasail. Parasail is a SIMD C library containing implementations of the Smith-Waterman, Needleman-Wunsch, and various semi-global pairwise sequence alignment algorithm.

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

sudo apt-get -y install parasail

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

You can also use apt command to install parasail.

sudo apt -y install parasail

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

sudo aptitude install parasail

Summary

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