makecbf command not found

Introduction

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

makecbf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: makecbf: command not found

Solutions to makecbf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu makecbf is provided by cbflib-bin package.

cbflib-bin is:

CBFlib is a library of ANSI-C functions providing a simple mechanism for accessing Crystallographic Binary Files (CBF files) and Image-supporting CIF (imgCIF) files.

This package contains various utility programs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cbflib-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install cbflib-bin.

sudo apt -y install cbflib-bin

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

sudo aptitude install cbflib-bin

Summary

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