rasterio command not found

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

Introduction

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

rasterio: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rasterio: command not found

Solutions to rasterio: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rasterio is provided by rasterio package.

rasterio is:

Rasterio reads and writes geospatial raster datasets.

Rasterio employs GDAL under the hood for file I/O and raster formatting. Its functions typically accept and return Numpy ndarrays. Rasterio is designed to make working with geospatial raster data more productive and more fun.

This package contains a command-line line interface to rasterio “rasterio” which can be used to inspect raster datasets.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rasterio

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

You can also use apt command to install rasterio.

sudo apt -y install rasterio

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

sudo aptitude install rasterio

Summary

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