airr-tools command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix airr-tools command not found error message

Introduction

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

airr-tools: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: airr-tools: command not found

Solutions to airr-tools: command not found

How To Fix airr-tools: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu airr-tools is provided by python3-airr package.

python3-airr is:

This package provides a library by the AIRR community to for describing, reporting, storing, and sharing adaptive immune receptor repertoire (AIRR) data, such as sequences of antibodies and T cell receptors (TCRs). Some specific efforts include:

  • The MiAIRR standard for describing minimal information about AIRR datasets, including sample collection and data processing information.
  • Data representations (file format) specifications for storing large amounts of annotated AIRR data.
  • APIs for exposing a common interface to repositories/databases containing AIRR data.
  • A community standard for software tools which will allow conforming tools to gain community recognition.

This package installs the library for Python 3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-airr

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-airr.

sudo apt -y install python3-airr

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

sudo aptitude install python3-airr

Summary

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