plasmidID command not found

Introduction

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

plasmidID: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: plasmidID: command not found

Solutions to plasmidID: command not found

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

In Ubuntu plasmidID is provided by plasmidid package.

plasmidid is:

PlasmidID is a mapping-based, assembly-assisted plasmid identification tool that analyzes and gives graphic solution for plasmid identification.

PlasmidID is a computational pipeline that maps Illumina reads over plasmid database sequences. The k-mer filtered, most covered sequences are clustered by identity to avoid redundancy and the longest are used as scaffold for plasmid reconstruction. Reads are assembled and annotated by automatic and specific annotation. All information generated from mapping, assembly, annotation and local alignment analyses is gathered and accurately represented in a circular image which allow user to determine plasmidic composition in any bacterial sample.

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

sudo apt-get -y install plasmidid

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

You can also use apt command to install plasmidid.

sudo apt -y install plasmidid

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

sudo aptitude install plasmidid

Summary

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