unikmer command not found

Introduction

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

unikmer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: unikmer: command not found

Solutions to unikmer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu unikmer is provided by unikmer package.

unikmer is:

unikmer is a golang package and a toolkit for nucleic acid k-mer analysis, providing functions including set operation k-mers optional with TaxIDs but without count information.

K-mers are either encoded (k<=32) or hashed (arbitrary k) into uint64, and serialized in binary file with extension .unik.

TaxIDs can be assigned when counting k-mers from genome sequences, and LCA (Lowest Common Ancestor) is computed during set opertions including computing union, intersecton, set difference, unique and repeated k-mers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install unikmer

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

You can also use apt command to install unikmer.

sudo apt -y install unikmer

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

sudo aptitude install unikmer

Summary

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