raxmlHPC-PTHREADS command not found

Introduction

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

raxmlHPC-PTHREADS: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: raxmlHPC-PTHREADS: command not found

Solutions to raxmlHPC-PTHREADS: command not found

How To Fix raxmlHPC-PTHREADS: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu raxmlHPC-PTHREADS is provided by raxml package.

raxml is:

RAxML is a program for sequential and parallel Maximum Likelihood-based inference of large phylogenetic trees. It has originally been derived from fastDNAml.

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

sudo apt-get -y install raxml

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

You can also use apt command to install raxml.

sudo apt -y install raxml

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

sudo aptitude install raxml

Summary

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