virulencefinder.py command not found

Introduction

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

virulencefinder.py: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: virulencefinder.py: command not found

Solutions to virulencefinder.py: command not found

How To Fix virulencefinder.py: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu virulencefinder.py is provided by virulencefinder package.

virulencefinder is:

The VirulenceFinder service contains one Python script virulencefinder.py which is the script of the latest version of the VirulenceFinder service. VirulenceFinder identifies viruelnce genes in total or partial sequenced isolates of bacteria - at the moment only E. coli, Enterococcus, S. aureus and Listeria are available.

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

sudo apt-get -y install virulencefinder

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

You can also use apt command to install virulencefinder.

sudo apt -y install virulencefinder

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

sudo aptitude install virulencefinder

Summary

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