ecflow_fuse command not found

Introduction

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

ecflow_fuse: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ecflow_fuse: command not found

Solutions to ecflow_fuse: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ecflow_fuse is provided by ecflow-client package.

ecflow-client is:

ecFlow is a work flow package that enables users to run a large number of programs ( with dependencies on each other and on time) in a controlled environment. It provides reasonable tolerance for hardware and software failures, combined with good restart capabilities.

ecFlow submits tasks(jobs) and receives acknowledgements from tasks when they change status and when they send events, using child commands embedded in the scripts. ecflow stores the relationship between tasks, and is able to submit tasks dependent on triggers.

This package contains the client tools

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

sudo apt-get -y install ecflow-client

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

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

sudo apt -y install ecflow-client

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

sudo aptitude install ecflow-client

Summary

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