helpmidas command not found

Introduction

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

helpmidas: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: helpmidas: command not found

Solutions to helpmidas: command not found

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

In Ubuntu helpmidas is provided by eso-midas package.

eso-midas is:

The ESO-MIDAS system provides general tools for image processing and data reduction with emphasis on astronomical applications including imaging and special reduction packages for ESO instrumentation at La Silla and the VLT at Paranal. In addition it contains applications packages for stellar and surface photometry, image sharpening and decomposition, statistics and various others.

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

sudo apt-get -y install eso-midas

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

You can also use apt command to install eso-midas.

sudo apt -y install eso-midas

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

sudo aptitude install eso-midas

Summary

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