pplacer command not found

Introduction

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

pplacer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pplacer: command not found

Solutions to pplacer: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pplacer is provided by pplacer package.

pplacer is:

Pplacer places reads on a phylogenetic tree. guppy (Grand Unified Phylogenetic Placement Yanalyzer) yanalyzes them. rppr is a helpful tool for working with reference packages.

Pplacer places query sequences on a fixed reference phylogenetic tree to maximize phylogenetic likelihood or posterior probability according to a reference alignment. Pplacer is designed to be fast, to give useful information about uncertainty, and to offer advanced visualization and downstream analysis.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pplacer

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

You can also use apt command to install pplacer.

sudo apt -y install pplacer

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

sudo aptitude install pplacer

Summary

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