vina_split command not found

Introduction

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

vina_split: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vina_split: command not found

Solutions to vina_split: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vina_split is provided by autodock-vina package.

autodock-vina is:

AutoDock Vina is a program to support drug discovery, molecular docking and virtual screening of compound libraries. It offers multi-core capability, high performance and enhanced accuracy and ease of use.

The same institute also developed autodock, which is widely used.

O. Trott, A. J. Olson, AutoDock Vina: improving the speed and accuracy of docking with a new scoring function, efficient optimization and multithreading, Journal of Computational Chemistry 31 (2010) 455-461

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

sudo apt-get -y install autodock-vina

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

You can also use apt command to install autodock-vina.

sudo apt -y install autodock-vina

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

sudo aptitude install autodock-vina

Summary

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