mapnik-render command not found

Introduction

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

mapnik-render: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mapnik-render: command not found

Solutions to mapnik-render: command not found

How To Fix mapnik-render: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mapnik-render is provided by mapnik-utils package.

mapnik-utils is:

Mapnik is an OpenSource C++ toolkit for developing GIS (Geographic Information Systems) applications. At the core is a C++ shared library providing algorithms/patterns for spatial data access and visualization.

Essentially a collection of geographic objects (map, layer, datasource, feature, geometry), the library doesn’t rely on “windowing systems” and is intended to work in multi-threaded environments

This package contains miscellaneous utilities distributed with mapnik:

shapeindex: program to creates file system based index for ESRI shape-files

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

sudo apt-get -y install mapnik-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install mapnik-utils.

sudo apt -y install mapnik-utils

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

sudo aptitude install mapnik-utils

Summary

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