augur command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix augur command not found error message

Introduction

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

augur: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: augur: command not found

Solutions to augur: command not found

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

In Ubuntu augur is provided by augur package.

augur is:

The nextstrain project is an attempt to make flexible informatic pipelines and visualization tools to track ongoing pathogen evolution as sequence data emerges. The nextstrain project derives from nextflu, which was specific to influenza evolution.

nextstrain is comprised of three components:

  • fauna: database and IO scripts for sequence and serological data
  • augur: informatic pipelines to conduct inferences from raw data
  • auspice: web app to visualize resulting inferences

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

sudo apt-get -y install augur

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

You can also use apt command to install augur.

sudo apt -y install augur

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

sudo aptitude install augur

Summary

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