openuniverse command not found

Introduction

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

openuniverse: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: openuniverse: command not found

Solutions to openuniverse: command not found

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

In Ubuntu openuniverse is provided by openuniverse package.

openuniverse is:

OpenUniverse (OU for short) is a fun, fast and free OpenGL space simulator. It currently focuses on the Solar System and lets you visit all of its planets, most major moons and a vast collection of smaller bodies in colorful, glorious and realtime 3D. If you’ve ever had a chance to visit Mercury or asteroid Geographos, here you’ll find them looking exactly the same way, following exactly the same path as when you’ve left them.

Notice that OpenUniverse is not actively being maintained anymore and that users are recommended to use Celestia instead.

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

sudo apt-get -y install openuniverse

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

You can also use apt command to install openuniverse.

sudo apt -y install openuniverse

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

sudo aptitude install openuniverse

Summary

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