bppconsense command not found

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

Introduction

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

bppconsense: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bppconsense: command not found

Solutions to bppconsense: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bppconsense is provided by bppsuite package.

bppsuite is:

The Bio++ Program Suite is a package of programs using the Bio++ libraries and dedicated to Phylogenetics and Molecular Evolution. All programs are independent, but can be combined to perform rather complex analyses. These programs use the interface helper tools of the libraries, and hence share the same syntax. They also have several options in common, which may also be shared by third-party software.

The following programs are included:

  • BppML for maximum likelihood analysis,
  • BppSeqGen for sequences simulation,
  • BppAncestor for ancestral states reconstruction,
  • BppDist for distance methods,
  • BppPars for parsimony analysis,
  • BppSeqMan for file conversion and sequence manipulation,
  • BppConsense for building consensus tree and computing bootstrap values,
  • BppReRoot for tree rerooting.
  • BppTreeDraw for tree drawing.
  • BppAlnScore for comparing alignments and computing alignment scores.
  • BppMixedLikelihoods for computing site per site likelihoods of components of mixture models.
  • BppPopGen for population genetics analyses.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bppsuite

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

You can also use apt command to install bppsuite.

sudo apt -y install bppsuite

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

sudo aptitude install bppsuite

Summary

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