spades command not found

Introduction

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

spades: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spades: command not found

Solutions to spades: command not found

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

In Ubuntu spades is provided by spades package.

spades is:

The SPAdes – St. Petersburg genome assembler is intended for both standard isolates and single-cell MDA bacteria assemblies. It works with Illumina or IonTorrent reads and is capable of providing hybrid assemblies using PacBio and Sanger reads. You can also provide additional contigs that will be used as long reads.

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

sudo apt-get -y install spades

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

You can also use apt command to install spades.

sudo apt -y install spades

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

sudo aptitude install spades

Summary

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