mdump3 command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix mdump3 command not found error message

Introduction

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

mdump3: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mdump3: command not found

Solutions to mdump3: command not found

How To Fix mdump3: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mdump3 is provided by libmed-tools package.

libmed-tools is:

MED-fichier (Modélisation et Echanges de Données, in English Modelisation and Data Exchange) is a library to store and exchange meshed data or computation results. It uses the HDF5 file format to store the data.

This package contains runtime tools for med-fichier:

mdump: a tool to dump MED files
xmdump: graphical version of mdump.
medconforme: a tool to validate a MED file
medimport: a tool to convert a MED v2.1 or v2.2 file into a MED v2.3 file

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmed-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install libmed-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libmed-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mdump3 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.