render_msa command not found

Introduction

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

render_msa: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: render_msa: command not found

Solutions to render_msa: command not found

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

In Ubuntu render_msa is provided by libbio-graphics-perl package.

libbio-graphics-perl is:

The Bio::Graphics::Panel class provides drawing and formatting services for any object that implements the Bio::SeqFeatureI interface, including Ace::Sequence::Feature, Das::Segment::Feature and Bio::DB::Graphics objects. It can be used to draw sequence annotations, physical (contig) maps, protein domains, or any other type of map in which a set of discrete ranges need to be laid out on the number line.

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

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

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

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

sudo apt -y install libbio-graphics-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libbio-graphics-perl

Summary

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