uchime command not found

Introduction

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

uchime: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: uchime: command not found

Solutions to uchime: command not found

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

In Ubuntu uchime is provided by mothur package.

mothur is:

Mothur seeks to develop a single piece of open-source, expandable software to fill the bioinformatics needs of the microbial ecology community. It has incorporated the functionality of dotur, sons, treeclimber, s-libshuff, unifrac, and much more. In addition to improving the flexibility of these algorithms, a number of other features including calculators and visualization tools were added.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mothur

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

You can also use apt command to install mothur.

sudo apt -y install mothur

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

sudo aptitude install mothur

Summary

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