mongoose command not found

Introduction

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

mongoose: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mongoose: command not found

Solutions to mongoose: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mongoose is provided by mongoose package.

mongoose is:

Suitesparse is a collection of libraries for computations involving sparse matrices.

Mongoose is a graph partitioning library that can quickly compute edge cuts in arbitrary graph. Given a graph with a vertex set and edge set, an edge cut is a partitioning of the graph into two subgraphs that are balanced (contain the same number of vertices) and the connectivity between the subgraphs is minimized (few edges are in the cut).

This package contains the standalone executable.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mongoose

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

You can also use apt command to install mongoose.

sudo apt -y install mongoose

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

sudo aptitude install mongoose

Summary

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