circos command not found

Introduction

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

circos: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: circos: command not found

Solutions to circos: command not found

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

In Ubuntu circos is provided by circos package.

circos is:

Circos visualizes data in a circular layout — ideal for exploring relationships between objects or positions, and creating highly informative publication-quality graphics.

This package provides the Circos plotting engine, which is command-line driven (like gnuplot) and fully scriptable.

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

sudo apt-get -y install circos

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

You can also use apt command to install circos.

sudo apt -y install circos

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

sudo aptitude install circos

Summary

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