busco command not found

Introduction

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

busco: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: busco: command not found

Solutions to busco: command not found

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

In Ubuntu busco is provided by busco package.

busco is:

Assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCO).

• Automated selection of lineages issued from https://www.orthodb.org/
• Automated download of all necessary files and datasets to conduct a run
• Use prodigal for non-eukaryotic genomes

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

sudo apt-get -y install busco

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

You can also use apt command to install busco.

sudo apt -y install busco

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

sudo aptitude install busco

Summary

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