mptp command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
mptp: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: mptp: command not found
Solutions to mptp: command not found
How To Fix mptp: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu mptp is provided by mptp package.
mptp is:
Implementation of a fast species delimitation method, based on PTP (Zhang et al. 2013) with a 64-bit multi-threaded design that handles very large datasets.
The tool mPTP can handle very large biodiversity datasets. It implements a fast method to compute the ML delimitation from an inferred phylogenetic tree of the samples. Using MCMC, it also computes the support values for each clade, which can be used to assess the confidence of the ML delimitation.
ML delimitation mPTP implements two flavours of the point-estimate solution. First, it implements the original method from (Zhang et al. 2013) where all within-species processes are modelled with a single exponential distribution. mPTP uses a dynamic programming implementation which estimates the ML delimitation faster and more accurately than the original PTP. The dynamic programming implementation has similar properties as (Gulek et al. 2010). See the wiki for more information. The second method assumes a distinct exponential distribution for the branching events of each of the delimited species allowing it to fit to a wider range of empirical datasets.
MCMC method mPTP generates support values for each clades. They represent the ratio of the number of samples for which a particular node was in the between-species process, to the total number of samples.
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install mptp
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install mptp.
sudo apt -y install mptp
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install mptp
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix mptp command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.