mscat command not found

Introduction

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

mscat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mscat: command not found

Solutions to mscat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mscat is provided by libpwiz-tools package.

libpwiz-tools is:

The libpwiz library from the ProteoWizard project provides a modular and extensible set of open-source, cross-platform tools and libraries. The tools perform proteomics data analyses; the libraries enable rapid tool creation by providing a robust, pluggable development framework that simplifies and unifies data file access, and performs standard chemistry and LCMS dataset computations.

The primary goal of ProteoWizard is to eliminate the existing barriers to proteomic software development so that researchers can focus on the development of new analytic approaches, rather than having to dedicate significant resources to mundane (if important) tasks, like reading data files.

This package ships command line tools that include idconvert (conversion of MS identifications) and msconvert (conversion of MS raw data files from/to any supported format).

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpwiz-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libpwiz-tools.

sudo apt -y install libpwiz-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libpwiz-tools

Summary

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