gbrowse_syn_load_alignments_msa command not found

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

Introduction

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

gbrowse_syn_load_alignments_msa: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gbrowse_syn_load_alignments_msa: command not found

Solutions to gbrowse_syn_load_alignments_msa: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gbrowse_syn_load_alignments_msa is provided by gbrowse package.

gbrowse is:

Generic Genome Browser is a simple but highly configurable web-based genome browser. It is a component of the Generic Model Organism Systems Database project (GMOD). Some of its features:

Simultaneous bird’s eye and detailed views of the genome;
Scroll, zoom, center;
Attach arbitrary URLs to any annotation;
Order and appearance of tracks are customizable by administrator and end-user;
Search by annotation ID, name, or comment;
Supports third party annotation using GFF formats;
Settings persist across sessions;
DNA and GFF dumps;
Connectivity to different databases, including BioSQL and Chado;
Multi-language support;
Third-party feature loading;
Customizable plug-in architecture (e.g. run BLAST, dump & import many formats, find oligonucleotides, design primers, create restriction maps, edit features).

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

sudo apt-get -y install gbrowse

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

You can also use apt command to install gbrowse.

sudo apt -y install gbrowse

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

sudo aptitude install gbrowse

Summary

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