totalopenstation-cli-parser command not found

Introduction

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

totalopenstation-cli-parser: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: totalopenstation-cli-parser: command not found

Solutions to totalopenstation-cli-parser: command not found

How To Fix totalopenstation-cli-parser: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu totalopenstation-cli-parser is provided by totalopenstation package.

totalopenstation is:

Total Open Station (TOPS for friends) is a free software program for downloading and processing data from total station devices.

This is a task which is usually done by proprietary, dedicated and Windows™-only software, but TOPS is different by nature, because:

• it is free software released under the GNU GPLv3 license;
• it works on any operating system, including mobile platforms like OpenMoko;
• it is designed to support as many devices and formats as possible, all within the same program, opposed to having one program per device.

Every model has its own quirks, but TOPS uses a modular structure and keeps the downloading of data logically separated from its processing, thus enabling exporting data to a variety of output formats, even at a later moment. Archiving of raw data is made easy by using plain text files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install totalopenstation

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

You can also use apt command to install totalopenstation.

sudo apt -y install totalopenstation

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

sudo aptitude install totalopenstation

Summary

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