cclib-get command not found

Introduction

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

cclib-get: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cclib-get: command not found

Solutions to cclib-get: command not found

How To Fix cclib-get: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cclib-get is provided by cclib package.

cclib is:

A Python library that provides parsers for computational chemistry log files. It also provides a platform to implement algorithms in a package-independent manner.

This package contains helper scripts for end users.

If you are looking for the unit tests and data files managed by cclib, they are distributed separately as in non-free package cclib-data.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cclib

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

You can also use apt command to install cclib.

sudo apt -y install cclib

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

sudo aptitude install cclib

Summary

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