vt command not found

Introduction

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

vt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vt: command not found

Solutions to vt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vt is provided by vt package.

vt is:

vt is a variant tool set that discovers short variants from Next Generation Sequencing data.

Vt-normalize is a tool to normalize representation of genetic variants in the VCF. Variant normalization is formally defined as the consistent representation of genetic variants in an unambiguous and concise way. In vt a simple general algorithm to enforce this is implemented.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vt

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

You can also use apt command to install vt.

sudo apt -y install vt

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

sudo aptitude install vt

Summary

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