Mapper command not found

Introduction

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

Mapper: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: Mapper: command not found

Solutions to Mapper: command not found

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

In Ubuntu Mapper is provided by openorienteering-mapper package.

openorienteering-mapper is:

OpenOrienteering Mapper is an application to draw maps for forest, sprint, MTB and radio orienteering races. It comes with predefined symbol sets implementing the IOF standards ISOM (1:15000, 1:10000) and ISSOM (1:5000, 1:4000). It is easy to implement additional symbol sets.

It provides a Free alternative to existing proprietary map drawing applications and supports multiple platforms. It is available for Android, Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

While it is under continuous development and considered in beta state, it has been used to produce maps for orienteering races. All required functions for drawing maps are implemented and the program works very stable. So it can be considered ready for productive use, although it is like always a good idea to keep backups of your files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install openorienteering-mapper

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

You can also use apt command to install openorienteering-mapper.

sudo apt -y install openorienteering-mapper

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

sudo aptitude install openorienteering-mapper

Summary

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