phyutility command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix phyutility command not found error message

Introduction

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

phyutility: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: phyutility: command not found

Solutions to phyutility: command not found

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

In Ubuntu phyutility is provided by phyutility package.

phyutility is:

Phyutility (fyoo-til-i-te) is a command line program that performs simple analyses or modifications on both trees and data matrices.

Currently it performs the following functions (to suggest another feature, submit an Issue and use the label Type-Enhancement) :

Trees

  • rerooting
  • pruning
  • type conversion
  • consensus
  • leaf stability
  • lineage movement
  • tree support

Data Matrices

  • concatenate alignments
  • genbank parsing
  • trimming alignments
  • search NCBI
  • fetch NCBI

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

sudo apt-get -y install phyutility

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

You can also use apt command to install phyutility.

sudo apt -y install phyutility

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

sudo aptitude install phyutility

Summary

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