rampler command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix rampler command not found error message

Introduction

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

rampler: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rampler: command not found

Solutions to rampler: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rampler is provided by rampler package.

rampler is:

Standalone module for sampling genomic sequences. It supports two modes, random subsampling of sequencer data to a desired depth (given the reference length) and file splitting to desired size in bytes.

Rampler takes as first input argument a file in FASTA/FASTQ format which can be compressed with gzip. The rest of input parameters depend on the mode of operation. The output is stored into a file(s) which is in the same format as the input file but uncompressed.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rampler

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

You can also use apt command to install rampler.

sudo apt -y install rampler

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

sudo aptitude install rampler

Summary

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