sga command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix sga command not found error message

Introduction

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

sga: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sga: command not found

Solutions to sga: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sga is provided by sga package.

sga is:

The major goal of SGA is to be very memory efficient, which is achieved by using a compressed representation of DNA sequence reads.

SGA is a de novo assembler for DNA sequence reads. It is based on Gene Myers' string graph formulation of assembly and uses the FM-index/Burrows-Wheeler transform to efficiently find overlaps between sequence reads.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sga

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

You can also use apt command to install sga.

sudo apt -y install sga

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

sudo aptitude install sga

Summary

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