soapdenovo-31mer command not found

Introduction

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

soapdenovo-31mer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: soapdenovo-31mer: command not found

Solutions to soapdenovo-31mer: command not found

How To Fix soapdenovo-31mer: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu soapdenovo-31mer is provided by soapdenovo package.

soapdenovo is:

SOAPdenovo is a novel short-read assembly method that can build a de novo draft assembly for the human-sized genomes. The program is specially designed to assemble Illumina GA short reads.

It creates new opportunities for building reference sequences and carrying out accurate analyses of unexplored genomes in a cost effective way.

This version is not maintained anymore, consider using soapdenovo2.

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

sudo apt-get -y install soapdenovo

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

You can also use apt command to install soapdenovo.

sudo apt -y install soapdenovo

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

sudo aptitude install soapdenovo

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix soapdenovo-31mer command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.