sunflow command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix sunflow command not found error message

Introduction

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

sunflow: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sunflow: command not found

Solutions to sunflow: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sunflow is provided by sunflow package.

sunflow is:

Sunflow is an open source rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis. It is written in Java and built around a flexible ray tracing core and an extensible object-oriented design. It was created as a framework for experimenting with global illumination algorithms and new surface shading models.

This package contains the sunflow GUI.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sunflow

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

You can also use apt command to install sunflow.

sudo apt -y install sunflow

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

sudo aptitude install sunflow

Summary

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