penny: command not found

Have You tried accessing the binary with the full path?

Maybe Your $PATH variable doesn't contain the default paths? echo $PATH should give something like:

[root@server ~]# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin

If it's empty, You may set the PATH variable with this command

export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/root/bin"

On Debian possible default full paths are:

/usr/lib/phylip/bin/penny - from package: phylip

You may install the required package with command apt-get install {package}
Error in other languages:
penny: bevel nie gevind nie
penny: comandă negăsită
penny: comando não encontrado
penny: commande introuvable
penny: command not found
penny: käsku ei ole
penny: không tìm thấy lệnh
penny: komanda nerasta
penny: Kommando nicht gefunden.
penny: kommandot finns inte
penny: komut yok
penny: nie znaleziono polecenia
penny: níor aimsíodh an t-ordú
penny: no se encontró la orden
penny: no s'ha trobat l'ordre
penny: opdracht niet gevonden
penny: parancs nem található
penny: perintah tidak ditemukan
penny: príkaz nenájdený
penny: příkaz nenalezen
penny: команда не найдена
penny: командата не е открита
penny: 命令找不到
penny: コマンドが見つかりません