qutemol command not found

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

Introduction

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

qutemol: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qutemol: command not found

Solutions to qutemol: command not found

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

In Ubuntu qutemol is provided by qutemol package.

qutemol is:

QuteMol is an interactive, high quality molecular visualization system. It exploits the current GPU capabilities through OpenGL shaders to offer an array of innovative visual effects. QuteMol visualization techniques are aimed at improving clarity and an easier understanding of the 3D shape and structure of large molecules or complex proteins.

Qutemol uses advanced OpenGL techniques and might not work correctly with all video cards and drivers.

Features QuteMol offers include:

  • Real time ambient occlusion
  • Depth aware silhouette enhancement
  • Ball-and-stick, space-filling and liquorice visualization modes
  • High resolution antialiased snapshots for creating publication quality renderings
  • Automatic generation of animated gifs of rotating molecules for web page animations
  • Interactive rendering of macromolecules (>100k atoms)

QuteMol reads PDB files as input.

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

sudo apt-get -y install qutemol

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

You can also use apt command to install qutemol.

sudo apt -y install qutemol

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

sudo aptitude install qutemol

Summary

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