recon command not found

Introduction

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

recon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: recon: command not found

Solutions to recon: command not found

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

In Ubuntu recon is provided by lam-runtime package.

lam-runtime is:

LAM (Local Area Multicomputer) is an open source implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard.

Some enhancements in LAM 6.3 are: o Added the MPI-2 C++ bindings package (chapter 10 from the MPI-2 standard) from the Laboratory for Scientific Computing at the University of Notre Dame. o Added ROMIO MPI I/O package (chapter 9 from the MPI-2 standard) from the Argonne National Laboratory. o Pseudo-tty support for remote IO (e.g., line buffered output). o Ability to pass environment variables through mpirun. o Ability to mpirun shell scripts/debuggers/etc. (that eventually run LAM/MPI programs). o Ability to execute non-MPI programs across the multicomputer. o Added configurable ability to zero-fill internal LAM buffers before they are used (for development tools such as Purify). o Greatly expanded error messages; provided for customizable local help files. o Expanded and updated documentation. o Various bug fixes and minor enhancements.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lam-runtime

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

You can also use apt command to install lam-runtime.

sudo apt -y install lam-runtime

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

sudo aptitude install lam-runtime

Summary

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