clinfo command not found

Introduction

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

clinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clinfo: command not found

Solutions to clinfo: command not found

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

In Ubuntu clinfo is provided by clinfo package.

clinfo is:

OpenCL (Open Computing Language) is a multivendor open standard for general-purpose parallel programming of heterogeneous systems that include CPUs, GPUs and other processors.

This package contains a tool that queries the capabilities of the available OpenCL drivers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install clinfo

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

You can also use apt command to install clinfo.

sudo apt -y install clinfo

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

sudo aptitude install clinfo

Summary

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