pycoQC command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix pycoQC command not found error message

Introduction

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

pycoQC: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pycoQC: command not found

Solutions to pycoQC: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pycoQC is provided by pycoqc package.

pycoqc is:

PycoQC computes metrics and generates interactive QC plots for Oxford Nanopore technologies sequencing data

PycoQC relies on the sequencing_summary.txt file generated by Albacore and Guppy, but if needed it can also generates a summary file from basecalled fast5 files. The package supports 1D and 1D2 runs generated with Minion, Gridion and Promethion devices and basecalled with Albacore 1.2.1+ or Guppy 2.1.3+

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

sudo apt-get -y install pycoqc

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

You can also use apt command to install pycoqc.

sudo apt -y install pycoqc

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

sudo aptitude install pycoqc

Summary

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