perm command not found

Introduction

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

perm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: perm: command not found

Solutions to perm: command not found

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

In Ubuntu perm is provided by perm package.

perm is:

PerM is a software package which was designed to perform highly efficient genome scale alignments for hundreds of millions of short reads produced by the ABI SOLiD and Illumina sequencing platforms. Today PerM is capable of providing full sensitivity for alignments within 4 mismatches for 50bp SOLID reads and 9 mismatches for 100bp Illumina reads.

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

sudo apt-get -y install perm

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

You can also use apt command to install perm.

sudo apt -y install perm

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

sudo aptitude install perm

Summary

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