BALLView command not found

Introduction

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

BALLView: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: BALLView: command not found

Solutions to BALLView: command not found

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

In Ubuntu BALLView is provided by ballview package.

ballview is:

BALLView provides fast OpenGL-based visualization of molecular structures, molecular mechanics methods (minimization, MD simulation using the AMBER, CHARMM, and MMFF94 force fields), calculation and visualization of electrostatic properties (FDPB) and molecular editing features.

BALLView can be considered a graphical user interface on the basis of BALL (Biochemical Algorithms Library) with a focus on the most common demands of protein chemists and biophysicists in particular. It is developed in the groups of Hans-Peter Lenhof (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany) and Oliver Kohlbacher (University of Tuebingen, Germany). BALL is an application framework in C++ that has been specifically designed for rapid software development in Molecular Modeling and Computational Molecular Biology. It provides an extensive set of data structures as well as classes for Molecular Mechanics, advanced solvation methods, comparison and analysis of protein structures, file import/export, and visualization.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ballview

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

You can also use apt command to install ballview.

sudo apt -y install ballview

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

sudo aptitude install ballview

Summary

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