nanopolish_makerange command not found

Introduction

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

nanopolish_makerange: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nanopolish_makerange: command not found

Solutions to nanopolish_makerange: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nanopolish_makerange is provided by nanopolish package.

nanopolish is:

Nanopolish uses a signal-level hidden Markov model for consensus calling of nanopore genome sequencing data. It can perform signal-level analysis of Oxford Nanopore sequencing data. Nanopolish can calculate an improved consensus sequence for a draft genome assembly, detect base modifications, call SNPs and indels with respect to a reference genome and more.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nanopolish

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

You can also use apt command to install nanopolish.

sudo apt -y install nanopolish

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

sudo aptitude install nanopolish

Summary

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