smithwaterman command not found

Introduction

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

smithwaterman: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: smithwaterman: command not found

Solutions to smithwaterman: command not found

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

In Ubuntu smithwaterman is provided by smithwaterman package.

smithwaterman is:

The Smith–Waterman algorithm performs local sequence alignment; that is, for determining similar regions between two strings or nucleotide or protein sequences. Instead of looking at the total sequence, the Smith–Waterman algorithm compares segments of all possible lengths and optimizes the similarity measure.

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

sudo apt-get -y install smithwaterman

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

You can also use apt command to install smithwaterman.

sudo apt -y install smithwaterman

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

sudo aptitude install smithwaterman

Summary

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