proteinortho_ffadj_mcs.py command not found

Introduction

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

proteinortho_ffadj_mcs.py: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: proteinortho_ffadj_mcs.py: command not found

Solutions to proteinortho_ffadj_mcs.py: command not found

How To Fix proteinortho_ffadj_mcs.py: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu proteinortho_ffadj_mcs.py is provided by proteinortho package.

proteinortho is:

Proteinortho is a stand-alone tool that is geared towards large datasets and makes use of distributed computing techniques when run on multi-core hardware. It implements an extended version of the reciprocal best alignment heuristic. Proteinortho was applied to compute orthologous proteins in the complete set of all 717 eubacterial genomes available at NCBI at the beginning of 2009. Authors succeeded identifying thirty proteins present in 99% of all bacterial proteomes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install proteinortho

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

You can also use apt command to install proteinortho.

sudo apt -y install proteinortho

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

sudo aptitude install proteinortho

Summary

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