aladin command not found

Introduction

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

aladin: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: aladin: command not found

Solutions to aladin: command not found

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

In Ubuntu aladin is provided by aladin package.

aladin is:

Aladin is an interactive software sky atlas allowing the user to visualise digitised astronomical images, to superimpose entries from astronomical catalogues or databases, and to interactively access related data and information from the Simbad database, the VizieR service and other archives for all known sources in the field.

Created in 1999 by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS), Aladin has become a widely-used tool of the Virtual Observatory (VO) framework capable of addressing challenges such as locating data of interest, accessing and exploring distributed datasets, and visualising multi-wavelength data. Compliance with existing or emerging VO standards, interconnection with other visualisation or analysis tools, and the ability to easily compare heterogeneous data are the key topics which allow Aladin to be a powerful data exploration and integration tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install aladin

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

You can also use apt command to install aladin.

sudo apt -y install aladin

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

sudo aptitude install aladin

Summary

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