phipack-phi command not found

Introduction

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

phipack-phi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: phipack-phi: command not found

Solutions to phipack-phi: command not found

How To Fix phipack-phi: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu phipack-phi is provided by phipack package.

phipack is:

The PhiPack software package implements a few tests for recombination and can produce refined incompatibility matrices as well. Specifically, PHIPack implements the ‘Pairwise Homoplasy Index’, Maximum Chi2 and the ‘Neighbour Similarity Score’. The program Phi can be run to produce a p-value of recombination within a data set and the program profile can be run to determine regions exhibiting strongest evidence mosaicism.

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

sudo apt-get -y install phipack

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

You can also use apt command to install phipack.

sudo apt -y install phipack

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

sudo aptitude install phipack

Summary

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