oclgrind command not found

Introduction

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

oclgrind: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: oclgrind: command not found

Solutions to oclgrind: command not found

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

In Ubuntu oclgrind is provided by oclgrind package.

oclgrind is:

Oclgrind is an extensible OpenCL device simulator that provides a plugin interface to facilitate the creation of tools to aid analysis and development of OpenCL programs. Among the tools that Oclgrind provides are various debugging aids, such as out-of-bounds memory access checking, data-race detection, and an interactive debugger.

Oclgrind implements the OpenCL 1.2 runtime API, which makes simulating an existing OpenCL program very straightforward - simply prefix your usual application command-line with ‘oclgrind’. There is also a simple interface for simulating individual kernels in isolation via the ‘oclgrind-kernel’ command.

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

sudo apt-get -y install oclgrind

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

You can also use apt command to install oclgrind.

sudo apt -y install oclgrind

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

sudo aptitude install oclgrind

Summary

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