bp_generate_histogram command not found

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

Introduction

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

bp_generate_histogram: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bp_generate_histogram: command not found

Solutions to bp_generate_histogram: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bp_generate_histogram is provided by libbio-db-gff-perl package.

libbio-db-gff-perl is:

Bio::DB::GFF provides fast indexed access to a sequence annotation database. It supports multiple database types (ACeDB, relational), and multiple schemas through a system of adaptors and aggregators.

The following operations are supported by this module:

  • retrieving a segment of sequence based on the ID of a landmark

  • retrieving the DNA from that segment

  • finding all annotations that overlap with the segment

  • finding all annotations that are completely contained within the segment

  • retrieving all annotations of a particular type, either within a segment, or globally

  • conversion from absolute to relative coordinates and back again, using any arbitrary landmark for the relative coordinates

  • using a sequence segment to create new segments based on relative offsets

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

sudo apt-get -y install libbio-db-gff-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-gff-perl.

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

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

sudo aptitude install libbio-db-gff-perl

Summary

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