psl2bed command not found

Introduction

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

psl2bed: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: psl2bed: command not found

Solutions to psl2bed: command not found

How To Fix psl2bed: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu psl2bed is provided by bedops package.

bedops is:

BEDOPS is a suite of tools to address common questions raised in genomic studies, mostly with regard to overlap and proximity relationships between data sets. It aims to be scalable and flexible, facilitating the efficient and accurate analysis and management of large-scale genomic data.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bedops

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

You can also use apt command to install bedops.

sudo apt -y install bedops

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

sudo aptitude install bedops

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix psl2bed command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.