patch-hmm.pl command not found

Introduction

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

patch-hmm.pl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: patch-hmm.pl: command not found

Solutions to patch-hmm.pl: command not found

How To Fix patch-hmm.pl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu patch-hmm.pl is provided by snap package.

snap is:

SNAP is a general purpose gene finding program suitable for both eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes. SNAP is an acroynm for Semi-HMM-based Nucleic Acid Parser.

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

sudo apt-get -y install snap

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

You can also use apt command to install snap.

sudo apt -y install snap

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

sudo aptitude install snap

Summary

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