varscan command not found

Introduction

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

varscan: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: varscan: command not found

Solutions to varscan: command not found

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

In Ubuntu varscan is provided by varscan package.

varscan is:

Variant detection in massively parallel sequencing. For one sample, calls SNPs, indels, and consensus genotypes. For tumor-normal pairs, further classifies each variant as Germline, Somatic, or LOH, and also detects somatic copy number changes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install varscan

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

You can also use apt command to install varscan.

sudo apt -y install varscan

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

sudo aptitude install varscan

Summary

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