cif_linguist command not found

Introduction

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

cif_linguist: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cif_linguist: command not found

Solutions to cif_linguist: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cif_linguist is provided by cif-linguist package.

cif-linguist is:

The CIF API provides a standard C interface for reading, writing, and manipulating Crystallographic Information Files (CIFs). It is targeted in particular at CIF 2.0, but it provides support for CIF 1.1 and earlier as well.

This package contains cif_linguist, an experimental program for converting data between various versions of the CIF format.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cif-linguist

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

You can also use apt command to install cif-linguist.

sudo apt -y install cif-linguist

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

sudo aptitude install cif-linguist

Summary

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