avogadro command not found

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

Introduction

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

avogadro: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: avogadro: command not found

Solutions to avogadro: command not found

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

In Ubuntu avogadro is provided by avogadro package.

avogadro is:

Avogadro is a molecular graphics and modelling system targeted at molecules and biomolecules. It can visualize properties like molecular orbitals or electrostatic potentials and features an intuitive molecular builder.

Features include:

Molecular modeller with automatic force-field based geometry optimization
Molecular Mechanics including constraints and conformer searches
Visualization of molecular orbitals and general isosurfaces
Visualization of vibrations and plotting of vibrational spectra
Support for crystallographic unit cells
Input generation for the Gaussian, GAMESS and MOLPRO quantum chemistry packages
Flexible plugin architecture and Python scripting

File formats Avogadro can read include PDB, XYZ, CML, CIF, Molden, as well as Gaussian, GAMESS and MOLPRO output.

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

sudo apt-get -y install avogadro

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

You can also use apt command to install avogadro.

sudo apt -y install avogadro

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

sudo aptitude install avogadro

Summary

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