bgolly command not found

Introduction

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

bgolly: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bgolly: command not found

Solutions to bgolly: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bgolly is provided by golly package.

golly is:

Golly simulates Conway’s Game of Life with an arbitrarily large grid of cells. It can optionally use a hashlife algorithm, which allows it to rapidly compute generations for huge patterns, and to compute many generations into the future at a time.

Golly provides a graphical interface for viewing and editing cellular automata. It supports copy and paste, zoom, auto-fit, multiple layers, and viewing different areas of a pattern simultaneously in different areas of a window.

Golly can load patterns from RLE, Life 1.05/1.06, dblife, and macrocell file formats; it can also interpret images as Life patterns. Golly provides integrated help, including a copy of the Life Lexicon.

Golly also supports other rules for 2D cellular automata with an 8-cell neighborhood, and supports 1D cellular automata.

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

sudo apt-get -y install golly

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

You can also use apt command to install golly.

sudo apt -y install golly

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

sudo aptitude install golly

Summary

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