geotranz command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix geotranz command not found error message

Introduction

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

geotranz: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: geotranz: command not found

Solutions to geotranz: command not found

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

In Ubuntu geotranz is provided by geotranz package.

geotranz is:

GEOTRANZ (Geographic Translator) is an application program which allows you to easily convert geographic coordinates among a wide variety of coordinate systems, map projections, and datums. Currently, twenty-five different coordinate systems, map projections, grids, and coding schemes, and over two hundred different datums, are supported.

The user interface of GEOTRANZ is similar to that of a calculator, but can also be used to efficiently convert large numbers of coordinates contained in text files.

GEOTRANZ is the Debian name of GEOTRANS, a product of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center.

This package contains the geotranz java graphical interface.

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

sudo apt-get -y install geotranz

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

You can also use apt command to install geotranz.

sudo apt -y install geotranz

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

sudo aptitude install geotranz

Summary

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