error message Expected bowtie2 to be in same directory with bowtie2-align

[andypan0214]

Hi I downloaded the bowtie2 2-5.4 and trying to run the basic command bowtie2 --h and receive and error message "Expected bowtie2 to be in same directory with bowtie2-align:" I trying to find the solution online but only found bowtie2-align have been remove after 2-3.0 if there any potential way to solve this issue?

[ch4rr0]

It seems like you downloaded a source package and need to compile the binaries first. If that is the case you can either run the gmake command to build the necessary binaries or download one of the pre-built packages from https://sourceforge.net/projects/bowtie-bio/files/bowtie2/2.5.4