seqkit command not found

Introduction

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

seqkit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: seqkit: command not found

Solutions to seqkit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu seqkit 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 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.