QFitsView command not found

Introduction

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

QFitsView: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: QFitsView: command not found

Solutions to QFitsView: command not found

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

In Ubuntu QFitsView is provided by qfitsview package.

qfitsview is:

QFitsView is a FITS file viewer based on DPUSER. In addition to displaying two-dimensional images, it also provides means to explore three-dimensional data cubes. It integrates the functionality of DPUSER which can be accessed directly out of QFitsView.

Note that this package was compiled with the giza library instead of PGPLOT, since the latter is non-free software.

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

sudo apt-get -y install qfitsview

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

You can also use apt command to install qfitsview.

sudo apt -y install qfitsview

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

sudo aptitude install qfitsview

Summary

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