bbFilter command not found

Introduction

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

bbFilter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bbFilter: command not found

Solutions to bbFilter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bbFilter is provided by progressivemauve package.

progressivemauve is:

The mauveAligner and progressiveMauve alignment algorithms have been implemented as command-line programs included with the downloadable Mauve software. When run from the command-line, these programs provide options not yet available in the graphical interface.

Mauve is a system for efficiently constructing multiple genome alignments in the presence of large-scale evolutionary events such as rearrangement and inversion. Multiple genome alignment provides a basis for research into comparative genomics and the study of evolutionary dynamics. Aligning whole genomes is a fundamentally different problem than aligning short sequences.

Mauve has been developed with the idea that a multiple genome aligner should require only modest computational resources. It employs algorithmic techniques that scale well in the amount of sequence being aligned. For example, a pair of Y. pestis genomes can be aligned in under a minute, while a group of 9 divergent Enterobacterial genomes can be aligned in a few hours.

Mauve computes and interactively visualizes genome sequence comparisons. Using FastA or GenBank sequence data, Mauve constructs multiple genome alignments that identify large-scale rearrangement, gene gain, gene loss, indels, and nucleotide substutition.

Mauve is developed at the University of Wisconsin.

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

sudo apt-get -y install progressivemauve

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

You can also use apt command to install progressivemauve.

sudo apt -y install progressivemauve

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

sudo aptitude install progressivemauve

Summary

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