datalad command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix datalad command not found error message

Introduction

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

datalad: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: datalad: command not found

Solutions to datalad: command not found

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

In Ubuntu datalad is provided by datalad package.

datalad is:

DataLad is a data management and distribution platform providing access to a wide range of data resources already available online. Using git-annex as its backend for data logistics it provides following facilities built-in or available through additional extensions

  • command line and Python interfaces for manipulation of collections of datasets (install, uninstall, update, publish, save, etc.) and separate files/directories (add, get)
  • extract, aggregate, and search through various sources of metadata (xmp, EXIF, etc; install datalad-neuroimaging for DICOM, BIDS, NIfTI support)
  • crawl web sites to automatically prepare and update git-annex repositories with content from online websites, S3, etc (install datalad-crawler)

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

sudo apt-get -y install datalad

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

You can also use apt command to install datalad.

sudo apt -y install datalad

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

sudo aptitude install datalad

Summary

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