rdp-readseq command not found

Introduction

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

rdp-readseq: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rdp-readseq: command not found

Solutions to rdp-readseq: command not found

How To Fix rdp-readseq: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu rdp-readseq is provided by rdp-readseq package.

rdp-readseq is:

Rdp-readseq is a simple user interface to the sequence reading library developed by the Ribosomal Database Project. It can handle genbank, embl, fasta, fastq, sff and sto files. It can read from files or streams, and can handle indexing files.

The package also contains the ReadSeq Java library which is used by other RDP tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rdp-readseq

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

You can also use apt command to install rdp-readseq.

sudo apt -y install rdp-readseq

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

sudo aptitude install rdp-readseq

Summary

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