run_mappers command not found

Introduction

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

run_mappers: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: run_mappers: command not found

Solutions to run_mappers: command not found

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

In Ubuntu run_mappers is provided by gasic package.

gasic is:

One goal of sequencing based metagenomic analysis is the quantitative taxonomic assessment of microbial community compositions. However, the majority of approaches either quantify at low resolution (e.g. at phylum level) or have severe problems discerning highly similar species. Yet, accurate quantification on species level is desirable in applications such as metagenomic diagnostics or community comparison. GASiC is a method to correct read alignment results for the ambiguities imposed by similarities of genomes. It has superior performance over existing methods.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gasic

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

You can also use apt command to install gasic.

sudo apt -y install gasic

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

sudo aptitude install gasic

Summary

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