vmatchselect command not found

Introduction

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

vmatchselect: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vmatchselect: command not found

Solutions to vmatchselect: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vmatchselect is provided by vmatch package.

vmatch is:

Vmatch is a versatile software tool for efficiently solving large scale sequence matching tasks. It subsumes the software tool REPuter, but is much more general, with a very flexible user interface, and improved space and time requirements.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vmatch

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

You can also use apt command to install vmatch.

sudo apt -y install vmatch

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

sudo aptitude install vmatch

Summary

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