stella command not found

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

Introduction

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

stella: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: stella: command not found

In Ubuntu stella is provided by stella package.

stella is:

Stella is a portable emulator of the old Atari 2600 video-game console. You can play most Atari 2600 games with it.

Stella’s features include:

emulation of Atari 2600 joysticks, keyboards, paddles and driving controllers using the host system’s input peripherals;
emulation of trackballs, joysticks, booster grips, driving controllers and the Amiga Mouse using the host system’s mouse;
support for real Atari 2600 controllers using the Stelladaptor, 2600-daptor or 2600-daptor II;
support for real Atari 7800 controllers using the 2600-daptor II;
support for the speech portion of a real AtariVox device;
support for Supercharger single-load and multi-load games;
emulation of CRT TV features, including texturing, colour bleed, RF noise and phosphor burn-off (requires OpenGL).

An extensive debugger is included, with the Distella disassembler.

Note that this is not isee systems’ STELLA modeling, simulation and analysis tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install stella

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

You can also use apt command to install stella.

sudo apt -y install stella

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

sudo aptitude install stella

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