sumatra command not found

Introduction

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

sumatra: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sumatra: command not found

Solutions to sumatra: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sumatra is provided by sumatra package.

sumatra is:

With the development of next-generation sequencing, efficient tools are needed to handle millions of sequences in reasonable amounts of time. Sumatra is a program developed by the LECA. Sumatra aims to compare sequences in a way that is fast and exact at the same time. This tool has been developed to be adapted to the type of data generated by DNA metabarcoding, i.e. entirely sequenced, short markers. Sumatra computes the pairwise alignment scores from one dataset or between two datasets, with the possibility to specify a similarity threshold under which pairs of sequences that have a lower similarity are not reported. The output can then go through a classification process with programs such as MCL or MOTHUR.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sumatra

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

You can also use apt command to install sumatra.

sudo apt -y install sumatra

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

sudo aptitude install sumatra

Summary

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