bam-read command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix bam-read command not found error message

Introduction

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

bam-read: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bam-read: command not found

In Ubuntu bam-read is provided by transrate-tools package.

transrate-tools is:

Transrate is a library and command-line tool for quality assessment of de-novo transcriptome assemblies.

This package provides command line tools used by transrate to process BAM files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install transrate-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install transrate-tools.

sudo apt -y install transrate-tools

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

sudo aptitude install transrate-tools

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