horizon-imp command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix horizon-imp command not found error message

Introduction

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

horizon-imp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: horizon-imp: command not found

Solutions to horizon-imp: command not found

How To Fix horizon-imp: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu horizon-imp is provided by horizon-eda package.

horizon-eda is:

Horizon is an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool for circuit board design. It manages the full design flow from schematic entry to gerber export. The main differentiator from KiCAD is a different (more sane) part library design. It is quite new software in 2018 so may have rough edges but is already very capable.

Notable features:

Sane library management
Unified editor for everything from symbol to board
Netlist-aware schematic editor
KiCad’s awesome interactive router
Lag- and glitch-free rendering
Rule-based DRC
Undo/redo
Copy/paste for some objects
Builds and runs on Linux and Windows

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

sudo apt-get -y install horizon-eda

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

You can also use apt command to install horizon-eda.

sudo apt -y install horizon-eda

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

sudo aptitude install horizon-eda

Summary

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