spin command not found

Introduction

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

spin: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: spin: command not found

Solutions to spin: command not found

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

In Ubuntu spin is provided by spin package.

spin is:

Spin is a popular open-source software verification tool, used by thousands of people worldwide. The tool can be used for the formal verification of multi-threaded software applications. The tool was developed at Bell Labs in the Unix group of the Computing Sciences Research Center, starting in 1980.

The software has been available freely since 1991, and continues to evolve to keep pace with new developments.

In April 2002 the tool was awarded the ACM System Software Award.

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

sudo apt-get -y install spin

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

You can also use apt command to install spin.

sudo apt -y install spin

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

sudo aptitude install spin

Summary

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