t_coffee command not found

Introduction

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

t_coffee: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: t_coffee: command not found

Solutions to t_coffee: command not found

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

In Ubuntu t_coffee is provided by t-coffee package.

t-coffee is:

T-Coffee is a multiple sequence alignment package. Given a set of sequences (Proteins or DNA), T-Coffee generates a multiple sequence alignment. Version 2.00 and higher can mix sequences and structures.

T-Coffee allows the combination of a collection of multiple/pairwise, global or local alignments into a single model. It can also estimate the level of consistency of each position within the new alignment with the rest of the alignments. See the pre-print for more information

T-Coffee has a special called M-Coffee that makes it possible to combine the output of many multiple sequence alignment packages. In its published version, it uses MUSCLE, PROBCONS, POA, DiAlign-TS, MAFFT, Clustal W, PCMA and T-Coffee. A special version has been made for Debian, DM-Coffee, that uses only free software by replacing Clustal W by Kalign. Using the 8 Methods of M-Coffee can sometimes be a bit heavy. You can use a subset of your favorite methods if you prefer.

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

sudo apt-get -y install t-coffee

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

You can also use apt command to install t-coffee.

sudo apt -y install t-coffee

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

sudo aptitude install t-coffee

Summary

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