flam3-animate command not found

Introduction

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

flam3-animate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: flam3-animate: command not found

Solutions to flam3-animate: command not found

How To Fix flam3-animate: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu flam3-animate is provided by flam3-utils package.

flam3-utils is:

Fractal Flames are algorithmically generated images and animations.

The software was originally written in 1992 and released as open source, aka free software. Since then it has developed a lot. It has been incorporated into many graphics programs and ported to most operating systems. The shape of each image is specified by a long string of numbers - a genetic code of sorts.

You can create your own flames with the Apophysis interactive designer (for windows), Qosmic (for Linux), or Oxidizer (for Mac OS X), or Apophysis-J (cross-platform in Java).

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

sudo apt-get -y install flam3-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install flam3-utils.

sudo apt -y install flam3-utils

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

sudo aptitude install flam3-utils

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix flam3-animate command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.