clFFT-client command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix clFFT-client command not found error message

Introduction

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

clFFT-client: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clFFT-client: command not found

In Ubuntu clFFT-client is provided by clfft-client package.

clfft-client is:

The clFFT library is an open source OpenCL library implementation of discrete Fast Fourier Transforms, which:

Provides a fast and accurate platform for calculating discrete FFTs.
Works on CPU or GPU backends.
Supports in-place or out-of-place transforms.
Supports 1D, 2D, and 3D transforms with a batch size that can be greater than 1.
Supports planar (real and complex components in separate arrays) and interleaved (real and complex components as a pair contiguous in memory) formats.
Supports dimension lengths that can be any mix of powers of 2, 3, and 5.
Supports single and double precision floating point formats.

This package provides the client program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install clfft-client

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

You can also use apt command to install clfft-client.

sudo apt -y install clfft-client

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

sudo aptitude install clfft-client

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