nrnivmodl command not found

Introduction

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

nrnivmodl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nrnivmodl: command not found

Solutions to nrnivmodl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nrnivmodl is provided by neuron-dev package.

neuron-dev is:

NEURON is a simulation environment for modeling individual neurons and networks of neurons. It provides tools for conveniently building, managing, and using models in a way that is numerically sound and computationally efficient. It is particularly well-suited to problems that are closely linked to experimental data, especially those that involve cells with complex anatomical and biophysical properties.

This package contains development files for the NEURON environment.

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

sudo apt-get -y install neuron-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install neuron-dev.

sudo apt -y install neuron-dev

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

sudo aptitude install neuron-dev

Summary

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