mcpltool command not found

Introduction

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

mcpltool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mcpltool: command not found

Solutions to mcpltool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mcpltool is provided by mcpl package.

mcpl is:

This package includes the core utilities for reading and writing *.mcpl files, a binary format with lists of particle state information, for interchanging and reshooting events between various Monte Carlo simulation applications. The core utilities include both command line tools and programming interfaces for C/C++ and python.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mcpl

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

You can also use apt command to install mcpl.

sudo apt -y install mcpl

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

sudo aptitude install mcpl

Summary

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