runjmodeltest-cluster command not found

Introduction

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

runjmodeltest-cluster: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: runjmodeltest-cluster: command not found

Solutions to runjmodeltest-cluster: command not found

How To Fix runjmodeltest-cluster: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu runjmodeltest-cluster is provided by jmodeltest package.

jmodeltest is:

jModelTest is a tool to carry out statistical selection of best-fit models of nucleotide substitution. It implements five different model selection strategies: hierarchical and dynamical likelihood ratio tests (hLRT and dLRT), Akaike and Bayesian information criteria (AIC and BIC), and a decision theory method (DT). It also provides estimates of model selection uncertainty, parameter importances and model-averaged parameter estimates, including model-averaged tree topologies. jModelTest 2 includes High Performance Computing (HPC) capabilities and additional features like new strategies for tree optimization, model- averaged phylogenetic trees (both topology and branch length), heuristic filtering and automatic logging of user activity.

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

sudo apt-get -y install jmodeltest

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

You can also use apt command to install jmodeltest.

sudo apt -y install jmodeltest

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

sudo aptitude install jmodeltest

Summary

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