xc-info command not found

Introduction

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

xc-info: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xc-info: command not found

Solutions to xc-info: command not found

How To Fix xc-info: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xc-info is provided by libxc-dev package.

libxc-dev is:

LibXC is a library of exchange-correlation (XC) functionals for density-functional theory (DFT). The aim is to provide a portable, well tested and reliable set of exchange and correlation functionals that can be used by other codes.

This package contains the static library, the C headers and the Fortran modules necessary for developers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libxc-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libxc-dev.

sudo apt -y install libxc-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libxc-dev

Summary

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