ddv command not found

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

Introduction

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

ddv: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ddv: command not found

Solutions to ddv: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ddv is provided by ncbi-tools-x11 package.

ncbi-tools-x11 is:

This package includes some X-based utilities distributed with the NCBI C SDK: Network Entrez, Sequin, ddv, and udv. These programs are not part of ncbi-tools-bin because they depend on several additional library packages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ncbi-tools-x11

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

You can also use apt command to install ncbi-tools-x11.

sudo apt -y install ncbi-tools-x11

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

sudo aptitude install ncbi-tools-x11

Summary

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