maptool command not found

Introduction

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

maptool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: maptool: command not found

Solutions to maptool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu maptool is provided by maptool package.

maptool is:

Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine.

Its modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats for routing and rendering of the displayed map. It’s even possible to use multiple maps at a time.

This package contains maptool, a tool to convert OpenStreetMap maps to the Navit format.

Note that maptool is only built on 64bit architectures.

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

sudo apt-get -y install maptool

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

You can also use apt command to install maptool.

sudo apt -y install maptool

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

sudo aptitude install maptool

Summary

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