runMetaBat.sh command not found

Introduction

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

runMetaBat.sh: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: runMetaBat.sh: command not found

Solutions to runMetaBat.sh: command not found

How To Fix runMetaBat.sh: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu runMetaBat.sh is provided by metabat package.

metabat is:

MetaBAT integrates empirical probabilistic distances of genome abundance and tetranucleotide frequency for accurate metagenome binning. MetaBAT outperforms alternative methods in accuracy and computational efficiency on both synthetic and real metagenome datasets. It automatically forms hundreds of high quality genome bins on a very large assembly consisting millions of contigs in a matter of hours on a single node.

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

sudo apt-get -y install metabat

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

You can also use apt command to install metabat.

sudo apt -y install metabat

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

sudo aptitude install metabat

Summary

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