mysofa2json command not found

Introduction

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

mysofa2json: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mysofa2json: command not found

Solutions to mysofa2json: command not found

How To Fix mysofa2json: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mysofa2json is provided by libmysofa-utils package.

libmysofa-utils is:

libmysofa is a light weight C-library intended to read SOFA (Spatially Oriented Format for Acoustics) files for spatial rendering. It hardly has any library dependencies and is suitable for embedded devices.

It reads SOFA files and checks whether the data complies to the “SimpleFreeFieldHRIR” conventions. In addition, it provides functions to look-up and interpolate the filters for a given orientation and to normalize the HRTFs (Head-Related Transfer Functions) to a reference level.

This package contains the mysofa2json utility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmysofa-utils

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

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

sudo apt -y install libmysofa-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libmysofa-utils

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mysofa2json command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.