tfscan command not found

Introduction

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

tfscan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tfscan: command not found

Solutions to tfscan: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tfscan is provided by emboss package.

emboss is:

EMBOSS is a free Open Source software analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology (e.g. EMBnet) user community. The software automatically copes with data in a variety of formats and even allows transparent retrieval of sequence data from the web. Also, as extensive libraries are provided with the package, it is a platform to allow other scientists to develop and release software in true open source spirit. EMBOSS also integrates a range of currently available packages and tools for sequence analysis into a seamless whole. EMBOSS breaks the historical trend towards commercial software packages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install emboss

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

You can also use apt command to install emboss.

sudo apt -y install emboss

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

sudo aptitude install emboss

Summary

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