buildMetarDB command not found

Introduction

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

buildMetarDB: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: buildMetarDB: command not found

Solutions to buildMetarDB: command not found

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

In Ubuntu buildMetarDB is provided by php-services-weather package.

php-services-weather is:

Services_Weather searches for given locations and retrieves current weather data and, dependent on the used service, also forecasts. Up to now, GlobalWeather from CapeScience, Weather XML from EJSE (US only), a XOAP service from Weather.com and METAR/TAF from NOAA are supported. Further services will get included, if they become available, have a usable API and are properly documented.

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

sudo apt-get -y install php-services-weather

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

You can also use apt command to install php-services-weather.

sudo apt -y install php-services-weather

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

sudo aptitude install php-services-weather

Summary

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