phat command not found

Introduction

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

phat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: phat: command not found

Solutions to phat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu phat is provided by phat-utils package.

phat-utils is:

The Persistent Homology Algorithm Toolox is a header-only C++ library for performing the filtered Z/2Z (co)boundary matrix operations commonly needed when computing (persistent) (co)homology in topological data analysis.

This package contains some standalone utilities built using the PHAT library, such as persistent homology of a given filtered boundary matrix.

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

sudo apt-get -y install phat-utils

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

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

sudo apt -y install phat-utils

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

sudo aptitude install phat-utils

Summary

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