nifti_tool command not found

Introduction

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

nifti_tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nifti_tool: command not found

Solutions to nifti_tool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu nifti_tool is provided by nifti-bin package.

nifti-bin is:

Niftilib is a set of i/o libraries for reading and writing files in the NIfTI-1 data format. NIfTI-1 is a binary file format for storing medical image data, e.g. magnetic resonance image (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI) brain images.

This package provides the tools that are shipped with the library (nifti_tool, nifti_stats and nifti1_test).

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

sudo apt-get -y install nifti-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install nifti-bin.

sudo apt -y install nifti-bin

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

sudo aptitude install nifti-bin

Summary

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