pbopen command not found

Introduction

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

pbopen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pbopen: command not found

Solutions to pbopen: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pbopen is provided by python3-pbcore package.

python3-pbcore is:

The pbcore package provides Python modules for processing Pacific Biosciences data files and building PacBio bioinformatics applications. These modules include tools to read/write PacBio data formats, sample data files for testing and debugging, base classes, and utilities for building bioinformatics applications.

This package is part of the SMRTAnalysis suite.

This is the Python 3 module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pbcore

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

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

sudo apt -y install python3-pbcore

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pbcore

Summary

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