solvate command not found

Introduction

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

solvate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: solvate: command not found

Solutions to solvate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu solvate is provided by solvate package.

solvate is:

For molecular dynamics simulations it is sometimes appropriate not to model in the vacuum but to have the proteins surrounded by their solvent. This program computes the location of water molecules such that the resulting PDB files become suitable for further analyses.

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

sudo apt-get -y install solvate

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

You can also use apt command to install solvate.

sudo apt -y install solvate

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

sudo aptitude install solvate

Summary

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