siconos command not found

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

Introduction

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

siconos: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: siconos: command not found

In Ubuntu siconos is provided by siconos package.

siconos is:

Siconos is an open-source scientific software primarily targeted at modeling and simulating nonsmooth dynamical systems in C++ and in Python:

Mechanical systems (rigid or solid) with unilateral contact and Coulomb friction and impact (nonsmooth mechanics, contact dynamics, multibody systems dynamics or granular materials).
Switched Electrical Circuit such as electrical circuits with ideal and piecewise linear components: power converter, rectifier, Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) or Analog-to-Digital converter.
Sliding mode control systems.
Biology (Gene regulatory network). Other applications are found in Systems and Control (hybrid systems, differential inclusions, optimal control with state constraints), Optimization (Complementarity systems and Variational inequalities), Fluid Mechanics, and Computer Graphics.

This package contains the ‘siconos’ tool allowing to compile and run Siconos programs/scripts in a single command.

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

sudo apt-get -y install siconos

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

You can also use apt command to install siconos.

sudo apt -y install siconos

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

sudo aptitude install siconos

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