prokka-uniprot_to_fasta_db command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix prokka-uniprot_to_fasta_db command not found error message

Introduction

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

prokka-uniprot_to_fasta_db: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prokka-uniprot_to_fasta_db: command not found

Solutions to prokka-uniprot_to_fasta_db: command not found

How To Fix prokka-uniprot_to_fasta_db: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu prokka-uniprot_to_fasta_db is provided by prokka package.

prokka is:

A typical 4 Mbp genome can be fully annotated in less than 10 minutes on a quad-core computer, and scales well to 32 core SMP systems. It produces GFF3, GBK and SQN files that are ready for editing in Sequin and ultimately submitted to Genbank/DDJB/ENA.

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

sudo apt-get -y install prokka

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

You can also use apt command to install prokka.

sudo apt -y install prokka

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

sudo aptitude install prokka

Summary

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