molrender command not found

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

Introduction

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

molrender: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: molrender: command not found

Solutions to molrender: command not found

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

In Ubuntu molrender is provided by mpqc-support package.

mpqc-support is:

MPQC is an ab-inito quantum chemistry program. It is especially designed to compute molecules in a highly parallelized fashion.

This package includes Perl modules to parse the output, Emacs-modes to facilitate editing mpqc files and molrender, a program to output the molecules in OOGL-format.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mpqc-support

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

You can also use apt command to install mpqc-support.

sudo apt -y install mpqc-support

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

sudo aptitude install mpqc-support

Summary

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