superpose command not found

Introduction

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

superpose: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: superpose: command not found

Solutions to superpose: command not found

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

In Ubuntu superpose is provided by libssm-bin package.

libssm-bin is:

SSM is a macromolecular coordinate superposition library, written by Eugene Krissinel of the EBI.

The library implements the SSM algorithm of protein structure comparison in three dimensions, which includes an original procedure of matching graphs built on the protein’s secondary-structure elements, followed by an iterative three-dimensional alignment of protein backbone Calpha atoms.

This package contains the binaries of the libraries

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

sudo apt-get -y install libssm-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libssm-bin.

sudo apt -y install libssm-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libssm-bin

Summary

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