funcen command not found

Introduction

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

funcen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: funcen: command not found

Solutions to funcen: command not found

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

In Ubuntu funcen is provided by funtools package.

funtools is:

Funtools, is a “minimal buy-in” FITS library and utility package developed at the High Energy Astrophysics Division of SAO. The Funtools library provides simplified access to a wide array of file types: standard astronomical FITS images and binary tables, raw arrays and binary event lists, and even tables of ASCII column data. A sophisticated region filtering library (compatible with ds9) filters images and tables using boolean operations between geometric shapes, support world coordinates, etc. Funtools also supports advanced capabilities such as optimized data searching using index files.

This package contains the tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install funtools

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

You can also use apt command to install funtools.

sudo apt -y install funtools

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

sudo aptitude install funtools

Summary

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