sta command not found

Introduction

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

sta: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sta: command not found

Solutions to sta: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sta is provided by opensta package.

opensta is:

After synthesis, place and route of a digital circuit, it is necessary to verify the timing of the design. OpenSTA is a tool for doing exactly that. It has a Tcl interface for entering commands for analysing designs.

It typically takes as input a verilog netlist, a liberty file, and other parasitics information from the placed and routed design.

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

sudo apt-get -y install opensta

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

You can also use apt command to install opensta.

sudo apt -y install opensta

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

sudo aptitude install opensta

Summary

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