rtax command not found

Introduction

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

rtax: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rtax: command not found

Solutions to rtax: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rtax is provided by rtax package.

rtax is:

Short-read technologies for microbial community profiling are increasingly popular, yet previous techniques for assigning taxonomy to paired-end reads perform poorly. RTAX provides rapid taxonomic assignments of paired-end reads using a consensus algorithm.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rtax

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

You can also use apt command to install rtax.

sudo apt -y install rtax

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

sudo aptitude install rtax

Summary

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