plast command not found

Introduction

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

plast: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: plast: command not found

Solutions to plast: command not found

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

In Ubuntu plast is provided by plast package.

plast is:

PLAST is a fast, accurate and NGS scalable bank-to-bank sequence similarity search tool providing significant accelerations of seeds- based heuristic comparison methods, such as the Blast suite of algorithms.

Relying on unique software architecture, PLAST takes full advantage of recent multi-core personal computers without requiring any additional hardware devices.

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

sudo apt-get -y install plast

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

You can also use apt command to install plast.

sudo apt -y install plast

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

sudo aptitude install plast

Summary

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