primer_designer command not found

Introduction

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

primer_designer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: primer_designer: command not found

Solutions to primer_designer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu primer_designer is provided by libbio-primerdesigner-perl package.

libbio-primerdesigner-perl is:

Bio::PrimerDesigner provides a low-level interface to the primer3 and epcr binary executables and supplies methods to return the results. In addition to accessing local installations of primer3 or e-PCR, it also offers the ability to accessing the primer3 binary via a remote server.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libbio-primerdesigner-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libbio-primerdesigner-perl.

sudo apt -y install libbio-primerdesigner-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libbio-primerdesigner-perl

Summary

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