CTDConverter command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix CTDConverter command not found error message

Introduction

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

CTDConverter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: CTDConverter: command not found

Solutions to CTDConverter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu CTDConverter is provided by ctdconverter package.

ctdconverter is:

Common Tool Descriptors (CTDs) are XML documents that represent the inputs, outputs, parameters of command line tools in a platform-independent way.

CTDConverter, given one or more Common Tool Descriptors (CTD) XML files, generates Galaxy tool wrappers and Common Workflow Language (CWL) Command Line Tool v1.0 standard descriptions from CTD files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ctdconverter

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

You can also use apt command to install ctdconverter.

sudo apt -y install ctdconverter

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

sudo aptitude install ctdconverter

Summary

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