sawriter command not found

Introduction

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

sawriter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sawriter: command not found

Solutions to sawriter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sawriter is provided by blasr package.

blasr is:

Basic local alignment with successive refinement (BLASR) is a method for mapping single-molecule sequencing reads against a reference genome. Such reads are thousands of bases long, with divergence between them and the genome being dominated by insertion and deletion error.

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

sudo apt-get -y install blasr

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

You can also use apt command to install blasr.

sudo apt -y install blasr

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

sudo aptitude install blasr

Summary

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