healpy_get_wmap_maps.sh command not found

Introduction

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

healpy_get_wmap_maps.sh: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: healpy_get_wmap_maps.sh: command not found

Solutions to healpy_get_wmap_maps.sh: command not found

How To Fix healpy_get_wmap_maps.sh: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu healpy_get_wmap_maps.sh is provided by python3-healpy package.

python3-healpy is:

HEALPix is an acronym for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization of a sphere. As suggested in the name, this pixelization produces a subdivision of a spherical surface in which each pixel covers the same surface area as every other pixel. It is commonly used to store all-sky astronomical images, most famously maps of the cosmic microwave background.

This package provides a Python3 wrapper around the C++ implementation of HEALPix.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-healpy

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-healpy.

sudo apt -y install python3-healpy

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

sudo aptitude install python3-healpy

Summary

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