poretools command not found

Introduction

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

poretools: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: poretools: command not found

Solutions to poretools: command not found

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

In Ubuntu poretools is provided by poretools package.

poretools is:

poretools is a flexible toolkit for exploring datasets generated by nanopore sequencing devices from MinION for the purposes of quality control and downstream analysis. Poretools operates directly on the native FAST5 (a variant of the HDF5 standard) file format produced by ONT and provides a wealth of format conversion utilities and data exploration and visualization tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install poretools

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

You can also use apt command to install poretools.

sudo apt -y install poretools

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

sudo aptitude install poretools

Summary

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