raxmlHPC command not found

Introduction

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

raxmlHPC: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: raxmlHPC: command not found

Solutions to raxmlHPC: command not found

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

In Ubuntu raxmlHPC 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 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.