simgrid-graphicator command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix simgrid-graphicator command not found error message

Introduction

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

simgrid-graphicator: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: simgrid-graphicator: command not found

Solutions to simgrid-graphicator: command not found

How To Fix simgrid-graphicator: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu simgrid-graphicator is provided by libsimgrid-dev package.

libsimgrid-dev is:

SimGrid is a toolkit that provides core functionalities for the simulation of distributed applications in heterogeneous distributed environments. SimGrid can be used as a Grid simulator, a P2P simulator, a Cloud simulator, a MPI simulator, or a mix of all of them. The typical use-cases of SimGrid include heuristic evaluation, application prototyping, and real application development and tuning.

This package contains the development files that you need to build your own simulator on top of SimGrid (header files and scripts), for C, C++ or Fortran.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsimgrid-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libsimgrid-dev.

sudo apt -y install libsimgrid-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libsimgrid-dev

Summary

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