modulecmd command not found

Introduction

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

modulecmd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: modulecmd: command not found

Solutions to modulecmd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu modulecmd is provided by environment-modules package.

environment-modules is:

The Modules package provides for the dynamic modification of a user’s environment via modulefiles. Each modulefile contains the information needed to configure the shell for an application. Once the Modules package is initialized, the environment can be modified dynamically on a per-module basis using the module command which interprets modulefiles. Typically modulefiles instruct the module command to alter or set shell environment variables such as PATH, MANPATH, etc. modulefiles may be shared by many users on a system and users may have their own collection to supplement or replace the shared modulefiles. The modules environment is common on SGI/Crays and many workstation farms.

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

sudo apt-get -y install environment-modules

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

You can also use apt command to install environment-modules.

sudo apt -y install environment-modules

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

sudo aptitude install environment-modules

Summary

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