vcfutils.pl command not found

Introduction

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

vcfutils.pl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vcfutils.pl: command not found

Solutions to vcfutils.pl: command not found

How To Fix vcfutils.pl: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu vcfutils.pl is provided by bcftools package.

bcftools is:

BCFtools is a set of utilities that manipulate variant calls in the Variant Call Format (VCF) and its binary counterpart BCF. All commands work transparently with both VCFs and BCFs, both uncompressed and BGZF-compressed.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bcftools

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

You can also use apt command to install bcftools.

sudo apt -y install bcftools

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

sudo aptitude install bcftools

Summary

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