prinseq-lite command not found

Introduction

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

prinseq-lite: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prinseq-lite: command not found

Solutions to prinseq-lite: command not found

How To Fix prinseq-lite: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu prinseq-lite is provided by prinseq-lite package.

prinseq-lite is:

PRINSEQ will help you to preprocess your genomic or metagenomic sequence data in FASTA or FASTQ format. It is a tool that generates summary statistics of sequence and quality data and that is used to filter, reformat and trim next-generation sequence data. It is particular designed for 454/Roche data, but can also be used for other types of sequence data. The standalone version is primarily designed for data preprocessing and does not generate summary statistics in graphical form.

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

sudo apt-get -y install prinseq-lite

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

You can also use apt command to install prinseq-lite.

sudo apt -y install prinseq-lite

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

sudo aptitude install prinseq-lite

Summary

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