kim-api-collections-management command not found

Introduction

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

kim-api-collections-management: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: kim-api-collections-management: command not found

Solutions to kim-api-collections-management: command not found

How To Fix kim-api-collections-management: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu kim-api-collections-management is provided by libkim-api-dev package.

libkim-api-dev is:

The KIM API is an Application Programming Interface for atomistic simulations. The API provides a standard for exchanging information between atomistic simulation codes (molecular dynamics, molecular statics, lattice dynamics, Monte Carlo, etc.) and interatomic models (potentials or force fields). It also includes a set of library routines for using the API with bindings for:

FORTRAN 77, Fortran 90/95, Fortran 2003 C, C++

Atomistic simulation codes that support the KIM API work seamlessly with the KIM-compliant interatomic models (KIM Models) distributed on this website. The interface is computationally efficient and often requires relatively minor changes to existing codes.

This package contains the development files (headers and documentation) for KIM-API.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libkim-api-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libkim-api-dev.

sudo apt -y install libkim-api-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libkim-api-dev

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix kim-api-collections-management command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.