screed command not found

Introduction

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

screed: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: screed: command not found

Solutions to screed: command not found

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

In Ubuntu screed is provided by python3-screed package.

python3-screed is:

Screed parses FASTA and FASTQ files, generates databases, and lets you query these databases. Values such as sequence name, sequence description, sequence quality, and the sequence itself can be retrieved from these databases.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-screed

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-screed.

sudo apt -y install python3-screed

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

sudo aptitude install python3-screed

Summary

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