Hello,
I am having trouble executing the program VCFLIB. I followed all instructions from the website
[https://github.com/vcflib/vcflib][1], to download and make the program, and all the executables appear to be in the bin file as expected after I typed the command make.
However, I can't run any of the executables. When I cd to the bin folder where all the executables are, I can see all of them but when I type the name of any function (for example, vcfcombine) I get the following error: "command not found".
Are there dependencies that I need to install? Any other ideas for what I am doing wrong and why I can't run any of the executables?
Thank you for any help you can provide, Betsy
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You need to make sure those executables are in your operating systems $PATH.
Check your PATH using echo $PATH which will tell you all location in which your operating systems "searches" for executables.
The easiest is probably to create symlinks from your newly installed binaries to a directory (e.g. ~/bin).
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Hello betsy.s.collins!
We believe that this post does not fit the main topic of this site.
you just have to update your PATH : https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-adding-path/ or specify a relative/full path `./dir1/dir2/program` . I'm closing this as it is a basic linux problem.
For this reason we have closed your question. This allows us to keep the site focused on the topics that the community can help with.
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Thank you! My apologies.
on a sidenote, you can also get around this issue by specifying the full path to the executable, e.g.
/path/to/vcfcombine, or if its in the current directory, just./vcfcombine