sspace command not found

Introduction

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

sspace: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sspace: command not found

Solutions to sspace: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sspace is provided by sspace package.

sspace is:

SSAKE-based Scaffolding of Pre-Assembled Contigs after Extension (SSPACE) is a script able to extend and scaffold pre-assembled contigs using one or more mate pairs or paired-end libraries, or even a combination.

SSPACE is built based on SSAKE. Code of SSAKE is changed to be able to extend and scaffold pre-assembled contigs for multiple paired reads libraries.

This is the free ‘basic’ version of SSPACE. The non-free ‘standard’ version is available directly from Baseclear.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sspace

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

You can also use apt command to install sspace.

sudo apt -y install sspace

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

sudo aptitude install sspace

Summary

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