matdump command not found

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

Introduction

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

matdump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: matdump: command not found

In Ubuntu matdump is provided by matio-tools package.

matio-tools is:

matio is a C library for reading and writing MATLAB MAT files.

This package contains a command-line tool, matdump, that can provide a human-readable list of the variables stored in a MATLAB MAT file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install matio-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install matio-tools.

sudo apt -y install matio-tools

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

sudo aptitude install matio-tools

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