ccs-kinetics-bystrandify command not found

Introduction

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

ccs-kinetics-bystrandify: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ccs-kinetics-bystrandify: command not found

Solutions to ccs-kinetics-bystrandify: command not found

How To Fix ccs-kinetics-bystrandify: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ccs-kinetics-bystrandify is provided by pbbamtools package.

pbbamtools is:

The BAM format is a binary, compressed, record-oriented container format for raw or aligned sequence reads. The associated SAM format is a text representation of the same data. The specifications for BAM/SAM are maintained by the SAM/BAM Format Specification Working Group.

PacBio-produced BAM files are fully compatible with the BAM specification, but makes use of the extensibility mechanisms of the BAM specification to encode PacBio-specific information.

This package provides command-line utilities for working with PacBio BAM files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pbbamtools

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

You can also use apt command to install pbbamtools.

sudo apt -y install pbbamtools

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

sudo aptitude install pbbamtools

Summary

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