mirtop command not found

Introduction

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

mirtop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mirtop: command not found

Solutions to mirtop: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mirtop is provided by mirtop package.

mirtop is:

The main goal of this project is to create a reflection group on metazoan microRNAs (miRNAs), open to all interested researchers, to identify blockages and develop standards and guidelines to improve miRNA research, resources and communication. This can go through the use of standardized file formats, gene and variants nomenclature guidelines, and advancements in miRNA biology understanding. The group will eventually also aim at expanding its breadth to the development of novel tools, data resources, and best-practices guidelines to benefit the scientific community by providing high confidence validated research and analysis strategies, regardless the expertise in this field. This package provides the command line interface to mirtop.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mirtop

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

You can also use apt command to install mirtop.

sudo apt -y install mirtop

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

sudo aptitude install mirtop

Summary

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