mrbayes ubuntu package

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:02:39 -0700
"Carl Boettiger" <cboettig at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have just installed the mrbayes ubuntu package and am unable to
>  launch it.  commands mrbayes, locate mrbayes, whereis mrbayes give
>  nothing, even though apt-get install mrbayes appears to have worked
>  fine.  Any ideas?  Thanks for your help, it is much appreciated.

It's a bit obscure :) I used "apt-file" to find the following:

mrbayes: /usr/bin/mb
mrbayes: /usr/share/doc/mrbayes/changelog.Debian.gz
mrbayes: /usr/share/doc/mrbayes/copyright
mrbayes: /usr/share/man/man1/mb.1.gz

So, I would try typing "mb"  (without the quotes) in your terminal.
I think it would be a good idea to type

man mb

first, though. :)

I have never used this program, and I don't have it installed - the
apt-file utility can be quite useful for this kind of thing, but since you
have mrbayes already  installed, you can get the same output as above by
typing

dpkg -L mrbayes

The usual strategy for finding an executable that has an unintuitive
command name is:

dpkg -L <packagename> | grep bin

or for games:

dpkg -L <packagename> | grep bin


Peter

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