bp_download_query_genbank command not found

Introduction

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

bp_download_query_genbank: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bp_download_query_genbank: command not found

Solutions to bp_download_query_genbank: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bp_download_query_genbank is provided by libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl package.

libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl is:

Provides a single place to setup some common methods for querying NCBI web databases. Bio::DB::NCBIHelper just centralizes the methods for constructing a URL for querying NCBI GenBank and NCBI GenPept and the common HTML stripping done in postprocess_data().

The base NCBI query URL used is: https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi

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

sudo apt-get -y install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl.

sudo apt -y install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libbio-db-ncbihelper-perl

Summary

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