WatchFolderAndSend command not found

Introduction

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

WatchFolderAndSend: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: WatchFolderAndSend: command not found

Solutions to WatchFolderAndSend: command not found

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

In Ubuntu WatchFolderAndSend is provided by pixelmed-webstart-apps package.

pixelmed-webstart-apps is:

This is a stand-alone DICOM toolkit that implements code for reading and creating DICOM data, DICOM network and file support, a database of DICOM objects, support for display of directories, images, reports and spectra, and DICOM object validation.

Provide JNLP applications as command line apps

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

sudo apt-get -y install pixelmed-webstart-apps

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

You can also use apt command to install pixelmed-webstart-apps.

sudo apt -y install pixelmed-webstart-apps

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

sudo aptitude install pixelmed-webstart-apps

Summary

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