fabio-convert command not found

Introduction

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

fabio-convert: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fabio-convert: command not found

Solutions to fabio-convert: command not found

How To Fix fabio-convert: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fabio-convert is provided by fabio-viewer package.

fabio-viewer is:

FabIO is an I/O library for images produced by 2D X-ray detectors and written in Python. FabIO support images detectors from a dozen of companies (including Mar, Dectris, ADSC, Hamamatsu, Oxford, …), for a total of 20 different file formats (like CBF, EDF, TIFF, …) and offers an unified interface to their headers (as a Python dictionary) and datasets (as a numpy ndarray of integers or floats)

Binaries provided with python-fabio

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

sudo apt-get -y install fabio-viewer

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

You can also use apt command to install fabio-viewer.

sudo apt -y install fabio-viewer

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

sudo aptitude install fabio-viewer

Summary

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