nextpnr-ice40 command not found

Introduction

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

nextpnr-ice40: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nextpnr-ice40: command not found

Solutions to nextpnr-ice40: command not found

How To Fix nextpnr-ice40: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu nextpnr-ice40 is provided by nextpnr-ice40 package.

nextpnr-ice40 is:

nextpnr aims to be a vendor neutral, timing driven, FOSS FPGA place and route tool.

nextpnr-ice40 is to be used for Lattice iCE40 FPGAs and uses fpga-icestorm to achieve that.

This package can perform place-and-route for Lattice iCE40 devices and contains only the command-line functionality. For the QT GUI, see nextpnr-ice40-qt.

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

sudo apt-get -y install nextpnr-ice40

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

You can also use apt command to install nextpnr-ice40.

sudo apt -y install nextpnr-ice40

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

sudo aptitude install nextpnr-ice40

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix nextpnr-ice40 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.