asdftool command not found

Introduction

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

asdftool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: asdftool: command not found

Solutions to asdftool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu asdftool is provided by asdftool package.

asdftool is:

ASDF (Advanced Scientific Data Format) is a proposed next generation interchange format for scientific data. ASDF aims to exist in the same middle ground that made FITS so successful, by being a hybrid text and binary format: containing human editable metadata for interchange, and raw binary data that is fast to load and use. Unlike FITS, the metadata is highly structured and is designed up-front for extensibility.

This package contains the asdf command line tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install asdftool

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

You can also use apt command to install asdftool.

sudo apt -y install asdftool

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

sudo aptitude install asdftool

Summary

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