faithpd command not found

Introduction

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

faithpd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: faithpd: command not found

Solutions to faithpd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu faithpd is provided by libssu-tools package.

libssu-tools is:

The de facto repository for high-performance phylogenetic diversity calculations. The methods in this repository are based on an implementation of the Strided State UniFrac algorithm which is faster, and uses less memory than Fast UniFrac. Strided State UniFrac supports Unweighted UniFrac, Weighted UniFrac, Generalized UniFrac, Variance Adjusted UniFrac and meta UniFrac. This repository also includes Stacked Faith (manuscript in preparation), a method for calculating Faith’s PD that is faster and uses less memory than the Fast UniFrac-based reference implementation.

This package contains target binaries ssu and faithpd

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

sudo apt-get -y install libssu-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libssu-tools.

sudo apt -y install libssu-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libssu-tools

Summary

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