biomaj-download-consumer command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix biomaj-download-consumer command not found error message

Introduction

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

biomaj-download-consumer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: biomaj-download-consumer: command not found

Solutions to biomaj-download-consumer: command not found

How To Fix biomaj-download-consumer: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu biomaj-download-consumer is provided by python3-biomaj3-download package.

python3-biomaj3-download is:

BioMAJ downloads remote data banks, checks their status and applies transformation workflows, with consistent state, to provide ready-to-use data for biologists and bioinformaticians. For example, it can transform original FASTA files into BLAST indexes. It is very flexible and its post-processing facilities can be extended very easily.

BioMAJ3 is a rewrite of BioMAJ v1.x, see online documentation for migration.

This package contains the library and microservice to manage downloads in BioMAJ3

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-biomaj3-download

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-biomaj3-download.

sudo apt -y install python3-biomaj3-download

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

sudo aptitude install python3-biomaj3-download

Summary

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