spread-phy command not found

Introduction

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

spread-phy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spread-phy: command not found

Solutions to spread-phy: command not found

How To Fix spread-phy: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu spread-phy is provided by spread-phy package.

spread-phy is:

SPREAD is a user-friendly application to analyze and visualize phylogeographic reconstructions resulting from Bayesian inference of spatio-temporal diffusion.

There is a tutorial for SPREAD online at http://www.kuleuven.be/aidslab/phylogeography/tutorial/spread_tutorial.html

Originally this program is named “spread”. However, there is just such a package inside Debian and thus a ‘phy’ for phylogeny was prepended.

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

sudo apt-get -y install spread-phy

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

You can also use apt command to install spread-phy.

sudo apt -y install spread-phy

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

sudo aptitude install spread-phy

Summary

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