qcat command not found

Introduction

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

qcat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qcat: command not found

Solutions to qcat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu qcat is provided by qcat package.

qcat is:

Qcat is a command-line tool for demultiplexing Oxford Nanopore reads from FASTQ files. It accepts basecalled FASTQ files and splits the reads into separate FASTQ files based on their barcode. Qcat makes the demultiplexing algorithms used in albacore/guppy and EPI2ME available to be used locally with FASTQ files. Currently qcat implements the EPI2ME algorithm.

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

sudo apt-get -y install qcat

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

You can also use apt command to install qcat.

sudo apt -y install qcat

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

sudo aptitude install qcat

Summary

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