imview command not found

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

Introduction

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

imview: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: imview: command not found

In Ubuntu imview is provided by imview package.

imview is:

Imview is an application which

Displays a large number of image formats.
Displays 2D or 3D (as slices) images with a very good zoom and pan feature.
Works with multi-spectral, time series or multi-page documents (e.g.: Satellite images, TIFF stacks, animated GIFs and heterogeneous multi-component files).
Displays all pixel types (1-bit to 64-bit data, integer or floating point).
Arbitrary 1-D profile of 2-D images (or of 2-D slices of 3-D images) can be displayed.
Has support for arbitrary colourmaps for all pixel types (i.e.: false colour display).
Has standard image manipulation facilities (brightness/contrast, gamma, zoom, crop, rotation, etc).
Can be controlled remotely via sockets and text commands (for easy integration into various image analysis systems).
Images can be uploaded into Imview via sockets or shared memory.
And much more!

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

sudo apt-get -y install imview

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

You can also use apt command to install imview.

sudo apt -y install imview

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

sudo aptitude install imview

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