genome-model-tools command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix genome-model-tools command not found error message

Introduction

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

genome-model-tools: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: genome-model-tools: command not found

In Ubuntu genome-model-tools is provided by libgenome-perl package.

libgenome-perl is:

This is the base namespace module for the Genome software tree.

That tree has several primary components:

Genome::Model: a data modeling pipeline management system for genomics

Genome::Model::Tools a tree of >1000 tools and tool wrappers for genomics

Genome::* a variety of sample tracking classes with an RDBMS back-end

Only the tools system is currently released.

See genome for a complete inventory of all tool packages, and for command-line access to those tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgenome-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libgenome-perl.

sudo apt -y install libgenome-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libgenome-perl

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