shovill command not found

Introduction

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

shovill: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: shovill: command not found

Solutions to shovill: command not found

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

In Ubuntu shovill is provided by shovill package.

shovill is:

Shovill is a pipeline which uses SPAdes at its core, but alters the steps before and after the primary assembly step to get similar results in less time. Shovill also supports other assemblers like SKESA, Velvet and Megahit, so you can take advantage of the pre- and post-processing the Shovill provides with those too.

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

sudo apt-get -y install shovill

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

You can also use apt command to install shovill.

sudo apt -y install shovill

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

sudo aptitude install shovill

Summary

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