vcftools command not found

Introduction

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

vcftools: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vcftools: command not found

Solutions to vcftools: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vcftools is provided by vcftools package.

vcftools is:

VCFtools is a program package designed for working with VCF files, such as those generated by the 1000 Genomes Project. The aim of VCFtools is to provide methods for working with VCF files: validating, merging, comparing and calculate some basic population genetic statistics.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vcftools

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

You can also use apt command to install vcftools.

sudo apt -y install vcftools

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

sudo aptitude install vcftools

Summary

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