simkaMin_update command not found

Introduction

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

simkaMin_update: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: simkaMin_update: command not found

Solutions to simkaMin_update: command not found

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

In Ubuntu simkaMin_update is provided by simkamin package.

simkamin is:

Simka is a de novo comparative metagenomics tool. Simka represents each dataset as a k-mer spectrum and compute several classical ecological distances between them.

The difference with Simka stands in the fact that SimkaMin outputs approximate (but very similar) results by subsampling the kmer space. With this strategy, and with default parameters, SimkaMin is an order of magnitude faster, uses 10 times less memory and 70 times less disk than Simka.

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

sudo apt-get -y install simkamin

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

You can also use apt command to install simkamin.

sudo apt -y install simkamin

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

sudo aptitude install simkamin

Summary

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