seqkit-benchmark command not found

Introduction

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

seqkit-benchmark: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: seqkit-benchmark: command not found

Solutions to seqkit-benchmark: command not found

How To Fix seqkit-benchmark: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu seqkit-benchmark is provided by seqkit package.

seqkit is:

SeqKit describes a cross-platform ultrafast comprehensive toolkit for FASTA/Q processing. SeqKit provides executable binary files for all major operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, and can be directly used without any dependencies or pre-configurations. SeqKit demonstrates competitive performance in execution time and memory usage compared to similar tools. The efficiency and usability of SeqKit enable researchers to rapidly accomplish common FASTA/Q file manipulations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install seqkit

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

You can also use apt command to install seqkit.

sudo apt -y install seqkit

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

sudo aptitude install seqkit

Summary

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