getpub command not found

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

Introduction

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

getpub: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: getpub: command not found

Solutions to getpub: command not found

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

In Ubuntu getpub is provided by ncbi-tools-bin package.

ncbi-tools-bin is:

This package includes various utilities distributed with the NCBI C SDK, including the development tools asntool and errhdr (formerly of libncbi6-dev). None of the programs in this package require X; you can find the X-based utilities in the ncbi-tools-x11 package. BLAST and related tools now come from a separate source base, corresponding to the ncbi-blast+ and ncbi-blast+-legacy packages.

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

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

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

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

sudo apt -y install ncbi-tools-bin

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

sudo aptitude install ncbi-tools-bin

Summary

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