gabedit command not found

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

Introduction

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

gabedit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gabedit: command not found

Solutions to gabedit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gabedit is provided by gabedit package.

gabedit is:

Gabedit is a graphical user interface to computational chemistry packages like:

MPQC
GAMESS-US
Gaussian
Molcas
Molpro
Q-Chem

These Ab Initio software packages might run locally or on a remote server (supporting FTP, RSH and SSH). Gabedit can display a variety of calculation results including most major molecular file formats. The advanced “Molecule Builder” allows one to rapidly sketch in molecules and examine them in 3D. Graphics can further be exported to various formats, including animations.

slurm-wlm-torque and gridengine-client are workload managers which provide wrappers for PBS commands. Gabedit also allows one to configure it for any other workload manager.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gabedit

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

You can also use apt command to install gabedit.

sudo apt -y install gabedit

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

sudo aptitude install gabedit

Summary

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