openmotor command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix openmotor command not found error message

Introduction

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

openmotor: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: openmotor: command not found

Solutions to openmotor: command not found

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

In Ubuntu openmotor is provided by openmotor package.

openmotor is:

openMotor is an open-source internal ballistics simulator for rocket motor experimenters. The software produces estimates of a rocket motor’s chamber pressure and thrust based on input such as propellant properties and grain geometry. It uses the Fast Marching Method to determine how a propellant grain regresses, which allows the use of arbitrary core geometries.

Current Features:

  • Metric and imperial units
  • Support for common grain geometries such as BATES, Finocyl, Star and more
  • Loading custom grain geometry from DXF files
  • A propellant editor that allows the user to enter the properties of as many propellants as they wish
  • The grain editor displays how a grain will regress to cut down on the guesswork involved in tweaking geometry
  • ENG file exporting
  • Burnsim importing and exporting
  • A UI that supports saving and loading designs along with undo and redo.

Planned Features:

  • Erosivity simulation
  • Detailed output of every calculated parameter at any time and position along the motor

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

sudo apt-get -y install openmotor

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

You can also use apt command to install openmotor.

sudo apt -y install openmotor

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

sudo aptitude install openmotor

Summary

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