mdinspect command not found

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

Introduction

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

mdinspect: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mdinspect: command not found

In Ubuntu mdinspect is provided by python3-mdtraj package.

python3-mdtraj is:

Read, write and analyze MD trajectories with only a few lines of Python code.

MDTraj is a python library that allows users to manipulate molecular dynamics (MD) trajectories. Features include:

Wide MD format support, including pdb, xtc, trr, dcd, binpos, netcdf, mdcrd, prmtop, and more.
Extremely fast RMSD calculations (4x the speed of the original Theobald QCP).
Extensive analysis functions including those that compute bonds, angles, dihedrals, hydrogen bonds, secondary structure, and NMR observables.
Lightweight, Pythonic API.

MDTraj includes a command-line application, mdconvert-mdtraj, for converting trajectories between formats.

This package installs the library for Python 3, together with the command line utilities mdconvert-mdtraj and mdinspect.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-mdtraj

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-mdtraj.

sudo apt -y install python3-mdtraj

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

sudo aptitude install python3-mdtraj

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