klayout command not found

Introduction

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

klayout: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: klayout: command not found

Solutions to klayout: command not found

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

In Ubuntu klayout is provided by klayout package.

klayout is:

This is very good viewer for GDSII and other layout files used in the semiconductor industry.

It is similar to ‘magic’, but has a much more modern GUI and is more robust handling all kinds of GDSII files created by various other tools. Its focus is more on viewing than on editing, but it also has limited, but expanding, support for DRC and extraction for LVS.

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

sudo apt-get -y install klayout

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

You can also use apt command to install klayout.

sudo apt -y install klayout

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

sudo aptitude install klayout

Summary

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