Install RAxML

RAxML installation

Ubuntu / Linux

# download

wget https://github.com/stamatak/standard-RAxML/archive/master.zip

unzip master.zip

# compile source code

cd standard-RAxML-master/

make -f Makefile.gcc # basic non-parallized version

make -f Makefile.SSE3.gcc # x86 processor optimized version

make -f Makefile.PTHREADS.gcc # parallelized version

make -f Makefile.SSE3.PTHREADS.gcc # parallelized and x86 processor optimized version

ls raxmlHPC*

raxmlHPC

raxmlHPC-PTHREADS

raxmlHPC-PTHREADS-SSE3

raxmlHPC-SSE3

# make RAxML files accessible

Option 1: move raxml files to bin/ folder (admin rights required)

sudo cp raxmlHPC* /usr/local/bin/

Option 2: alternatively, add your RAxML path to the .bashrc file

export PATH=$HOME/tools/RAxML/standard-RAxML-master:$PATH