gffread command not found

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

Introduction

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

gffread: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gffread: command not found

In Ubuntu gffread is provided by gffread package.

gffread is:

Gffread is a GFF/GTF parsing utility providing format conversions, region filtering, FASTA sequence extraction and more.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gffread

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

You can also use apt command to install gffread.

sudo apt -y install gffread

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

sudo aptitude install gffread

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