eckit-info command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix eckit-info command not found error message

Introduction

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

eckit-info: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: eckit-info: command not found

Solutions to eckit-info: command not found

How To Fix eckit-info: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu eckit-info is provided by libeckit-utils package.

libeckit-utils is:

ecKit is a cross-platform c++ toolkit that supports development of tools and applications at ECMWF. It is based on code developed over the last 20 years within the MARS software and was re-factored out to be reused by other applications. The main focus is UNIX/POSIX systems, and it has been thoroughly tested on AIX, Linux and Mac OSX. Historically, the code base pre-dates and in some way can be seen as a leaner substitute for some ‘Boost’ libraries.

ECMWF is the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libeckit-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install libeckit-utils.

sudo apt -y install libeckit-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libeckit-utils

Summary

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