ncbi-acc-download command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix ncbi-acc-download command not found error message

Introduction

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

ncbi-acc-download: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ncbi-acc-download: command not found

In Ubuntu ncbi-acc-download is provided by ncbi-acc-download package.

ncbi-acc-download is:

This package provides a script to download sequences from GenBank/RefSeq by accession through the NCBI ENTREZ API.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ncbi-acc-download

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

You can also use apt command to install ncbi-acc-download.

sudo apt -y install ncbi-acc-download

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

sudo aptitude install ncbi-acc-download

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