efetch command not found

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

Introduction

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

efetch: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: efetch: command not found

In Ubuntu efetch is provided by acedb-other package.

acedb-other is:

This package collects all those smallish applications that acedb collects under its ‘other’ target of its Makefile.

efetch: presumably short for ’entry fetch’ collects sequence information from common DNA and protein databases.

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

sudo apt-get -y install acedb-other

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

You can also use apt command to install acedb-other.

sudo apt -y install acedb-other

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

sudo aptitude install acedb-other

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