skesa command not found

Introduction

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

skesa: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: skesa: command not found

Solutions to skesa: command not found

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

In Ubuntu skesa is provided by skesa package.

skesa is:

SKESA is a DeBruijn graph-based de-novo assembler designed for assembling reads of microbial genomes sequenced using Illumina. Comparison with SPAdes and MegaHit shows that SKESA produces assemblies that have high sequence quality and contiguity, handles low-level contamination in reads, is fast, and produces an identical assembly for the same input when assembled multiple times with the same or different compute resources. SKESA has been used for assembling over 272,000 read sets in the Sequence Read Archive at NCBI and for real-time pathogen detection.

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

sudo apt-get -y install skesa

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

You can also use apt command to install skesa.

sudo apt -y install skesa

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

sudo aptitude install skesa

Summary

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