brig command not found

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

Introduction

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

brig: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: brig: command not found

In Ubuntu brig is provided by brig package.

brig is:

BRIG can display circular comparisons between a large number of genomes, with a focus on handling genome assembly data.

Images show similarity between a central reference sequence and other sequences as concentric rings.
BRIG will perform all BLAST comparisons and file parsing automatically via a simple GUI.
Contig boundaries and read coverage can be displayed for draft genomes; customized graphs and annotations can be displayed.
Using a user-defined set of genes as input, BRIG can display gene presence, absence, truncation or sequence variation in a set of complete genomes, draft genomes or even raw, unassembled sequence data.
BRIG also accepts SAM-formatted read-mapping files enabling genomic regions present in unassembled sequence data from multiple samples to be compared simultaneously

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

sudo apt-get -y install brig

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

You can also use apt command to install brig.

sudo apt -y install brig

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

sudo aptitude install brig

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