atlas-meshgen command not found

Introduction

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

atlas-meshgen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: atlas-meshgen: command not found

Solutions to atlas-meshgen: command not found

How To Fix atlas-meshgen: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu atlas-meshgen is provided by libatlas-ecmwf-utils package.

libatlas-ecmwf-utils is:

Atlas is an ECMWF library for parallel data-structures supporting unstructured grids and function spaces, with the aim to investigate alternative more scalable dynamical core options for Earth System models, and to support modern interpolation and product generation software.

Atlas is predominantly C++ code, with main features available to Fortran codes through a F2003 interface. ECMWF is the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libatlas-ecmwf-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install libatlas-ecmwf-utils.

sudo apt -y install libatlas-ecmwf-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libatlas-ecmwf-utils

Summary

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