silofile command not found

Introduction

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

silofile: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: silofile: command not found

Solutions to silofile: command not found

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

In Ubuntu silofile is provided by libsilo-bin package.

libsilo-bin is:

This package contains a number of utilities for manipulating and viewing Silo files. Silo is a scientific data format library.

Silo supports gridless (point) meshes, structured meshes, unstructured-zoo and unstructured-arbitrary-polyhedral meshes, block structured AMR meshes, constructive solid geometry (CSG) meshes, piecewise-constant (e.g. zone-centered) and piecewise-linear (e.g. node-centered) variables defined on the node, edge, face or volume elements of meshes as well as the decomposition of meshes into arbitrary subset hierarchies including materials and mixing materials. In addition, Silo supports a wide variety of other useful objects to address various scientific computing application needs. Although the Silo library is a serial library, it has some key features which enable it to be applied quite effectively and scalable in parallel.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsilo-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libsilo-bin.

sudo apt -y install libsilo-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libsilo-bin

Summary

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