fastDNAml command not found

Introduction

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

fastDNAml: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fastDNAml: command not found

Solutions to fastDNAml: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fastDNAml is provided by fastdnaml package.

fastdnaml is:

fastDNAml is a program derived from Joseph Felsenstein’s version 3.3 DNAML (part of his PHYLIP package). Users should consult the documentation for DNAML before using this program.

fastDNAml is an attempt to solve the same problem as DNAML, but to do so faster and using less memory, so that larger trees and/or more bootstrap replicates become tractable. Much of fastDNAml is merely a recoding of the PHYLIP 3.3 DNAML program from PASCAL to C.

Note that the homepage of this program is not available any more and so this program will probably not see any further updates.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fastdnaml

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

You can also use apt command to install fastdnaml.

sudo apt -y install fastdnaml

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

sudo aptitude install fastdnaml

Summary

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