supernova command not found

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

Introduction

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

supernova: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: supernova: command not found

Solutions to supernova: command not found

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

In Ubuntu supernova is provided by supercollider-supernova package.

supercollider-supernova is:

SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.

This package contains the multiprocessor aware and parallelization capable synthesis server supernova. Use of this server is manually enabled via a Server.supernova call before starting the server. This server does not work on i486 or i586 processors.

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

sudo apt-get -y install supercollider-supernova

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

You can also use apt command to install supercollider-supernova.

sudo apt -y install supercollider-supernova

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

sudo aptitude install supercollider-supernova

Summary

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