elki command not found

Introduction

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

elki: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: elki: command not found

Solutions to elki: command not found

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

In Ubuntu elki is provided by elki package.

elki is:

ELKI: “Environment for Developing KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures” is a development framework for data mining algorithms written in Java. It includes a large variety of popular data mining algorithms, distance functions and index structures.

Its focus is particularly on clustering and outlier detection methods, in contrast to many other data mining toolkits that focus on classification. Additionally, it includes support for index structures to improve algorithm performance such as R*-Tree and M-Tree.

The modular architecture is meant to allow adding custom components such as distance functions or algorithms, while being able to reuse the other parts for evaluation.

This package contains the compiled ELKI version, and launcher scripts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install elki

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

You can also use apt command to install elki.

sudo apt -y install elki

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

sudo aptitude install elki

Summary

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