icarus command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix icarus command not found error message

Introduction

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

icarus: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: icarus: command not found

Solutions to icarus: command not found

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

In Ubuntu icarus is provided by higan package.

higan is:

higan is an emulator for systems from Nintendo (SNES, NES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance), Sega (Master System, Game Gear), NEC (PC Engine, SuperGrafx) and Bandai (WonderSwan, WonderSwan Color). It was formerly called bsnes and the SNES emulation is especially complete and polished.

higan strives to provide the most faithful hardware emulation possible. It focuses on accuracy and clean code, rather than speed and special features. It is meant as a reference emulator to document how the underlying hardware works. As a result the minimum system requirements are high.

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

sudo apt-get -y install higan

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

You can also use apt command to install higan.

sudo apt -y install higan

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

sudo aptitude install higan

Summary

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