mothur-mpi software package provides mpi-enabled binary for mothur, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install mothur-mpi
mothur-mpi is installed in your system.
Make ensure the mothur-mpi package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep mothur-mpi *
You will get with mothur-mpi package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr |
| Section | Science |
| Package | mothur-mpi |
| Version | 1.31.2+dfsg-2build1 |
| Description | mpi-enabled binary for mothur |
| Sub Section | Science |