gffutils-cli command not found

Introduction

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

gffutils-cli: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gffutils-cli: command not found

Solutions to gffutils-cli: command not found

How To Fix gffutils-cli: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gffutils-cli is provided by python3-gffutils package.

python3-gffutils is:

A Python package for working with and manipulating the GFF and GTF format files typically used for genomic annotations. Files are loaded into a sqlite3 database, allowing much more complex manipulation of hierarchical features (e.g., genes, transcripts, and exons) than is possible with plain-text methods alone.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-gffutils

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-gffutils.

sudo apt -y install python3-gffutils

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

sudo aptitude install python3-gffutils

Summary

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