TIDDIT.py command not found

Introduction

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

TIDDIT.py: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: TIDDIT.py: command not found

Solutions to TIDDIT.py: command not found

How To Fix TIDDIT.py: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu TIDDIT.py is provided by tiddit package.

tiddit is:

TIDDIT is a tool to used to identify chromosomal rearrangements using Mate Pair or Paired End sequencing data. TIDDIT identifies intra and inter- chromosomal translocations, deletions, tandem-duplications and inversions, using supplementary alignments as well as discordant pairs.

TIDDIT has two analysis modules. The sv mode, which is used to search for structural variants. And the cov mode that analyse the read depth of a bam file and generates a coverage report.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tiddit

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

You can also use apt command to install tiddit.

sudo apt -y install tiddit

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

sudo aptitude install tiddit

Summary

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