EDTSurf command not found

Introduction

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

EDTSurf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: EDTSurf: command not found

Solutions to EDTSurf: command not found

How To Fix EDTSurf: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu EDTSurf is provided by edtsurf package.

edtsurf is:

EDTSurf is a open source program to construct triangulated surfaces for macromolecules. It generates three major macromolecular surfaces: van der Waals surface, solvent-accessible surface and molecular surface (solvent-excluded surface). EDTsurf also identifies cavities which are inside of macromolecules.

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

sudo apt-get -y install edtsurf

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

You can also use apt command to install edtsurf.

sudo apt -y install edtsurf

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

sudo aptitude install edtsurf

Summary

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