dump1090-mutability command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix dump1090-mutability command not found error message

Introduction

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

dump1090-mutability: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dump1090-mutability: command not found

In Ubuntu dump1090-mutability is provided by dump1090-mutability package.

dump1090-mutability is:

Networked Aviation Mode S / ADS-B decoder/translator with RTL-SDR software defined radio USB device support.

This is a packaging of the “mutability” fork of dump1090 that includes sampling at 2.4MHz and other improvements.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dump1090-mutability

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

You can also use apt command to install dump1090-mutability.

sudo apt -y install dump1090-mutability

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

sudo aptitude install dump1090-mutability

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dump1090-mutability command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.