mcxload command not found

Introduction

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

mcxload: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mcxload: command not found

Solutions to mcxload: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mcxload is provided by mcl package.

mcl is:

The MCL package is an implementation of the MCL algorithm, and offers utilities for manipulating sparse matrices (the essential data structure in the MCL algorithm) and conducting cluster experiments.

MCL is currently being used in sciences like biology (protein family detection, genomics), computer science (node clustering in Peer-to-Peer networks), and linguistics (text analysis).

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

sudo apt-get -y install mcl

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

You can also use apt command to install mcl.

sudo apt -y install mcl

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

sudo aptitude install mcl

Summary

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