seaview command not found

Introduction

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

seaview: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: seaview: command not found

Solutions to seaview: command not found

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

In Ubuntu seaview is provided by seaview package.

seaview is:

SeaView is a viewer and editor of multiple sequence alignments, i.e. DNA or protein sequences are positioned each in their own separate line, such that the nucleotide/amino acid at a particular position (column) is presumed to have the same biochemical property.

SeaView reads and writes various file formats (NEXUS, MSF, CLUSTAL, FASTA, PHYLIP, MASE, Newick) of DNA and protein sequences and of phylogenetic trees. Alignments can be manually edited. It drives the programs Muscle or Clustal Omega for multiple sequence alignment, and also allows one to use any external alignment algorithm able to read and write FASTA-formatted files. It computes phylogenetic trees by parsimony using PHYLIP’s dnapars/protpars algorithm, by distance with NJ or BioNJ algorithms on a variety of evolutionary distances, or by maximum likelihood using the program PhyML 3.0.

SeaView draws phylogenetic trees on screen or PostScript files, and allows one to download sequences from EMBL/GenBank/UniProt using the Internet.

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

sudo apt-get -y install seaview

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

You can also use apt command to install seaview.

sudo apt -y install seaview

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

sudo aptitude install seaview

Summary

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