bp_einfo command not found

Introduction

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

bp_einfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bp_einfo: command not found

Solutions to bp_einfo: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bp_einfo is provided by libbio-eutilities-perl package.

libbio-eutilities-perl is:

The Bioperl project is a coordinated effort to collect computational methods routinely used in bioinformatics into a set of standard CPAN-style, well-documented, and freely available Perl modules. This package provides a programmatic interface to NCBI’s Entrez Programming Utilities commonly referred to as E-utilities. Namely, it provides the Bio::DB::EUtilities and Bio::Tools::EUtilities perl modules.

Entrez is a federated search engine at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) for a large number of databases covering a variety of biomedical data, including nucleotide and protein sequences, gene records, three-dimensional molecular structures, and the biomedical literature. E-utilities are a set of eight server-side programs that provide a stable interface into the Entrez query and database system at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

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

sudo apt-get -y install libbio-eutilities-perl

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

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

sudo apt -y install libbio-eutilities-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libbio-eutilities-perl

Summary

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