esorex command not found

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

Introduction

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

esorex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: esorex: command not found

Solutions to esorex: command not found

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

In Ubuntu esorex is provided by esorex package.

esorex is:

EsoRex is the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Recipe Execution Tool. It can list, configure and execute CPL-based recipes from the command line.

The Common Pipeline Library (CPL) comprises a set of ISO-C libraries that provide a comprehensive, efficient and robust software toolkit. It forms a basis for the creation of automated astronomical data-reduction tasks.

One of the features provided by the CPL is the ability to create data-reduction algorithms that run as plugins (dynamic libraries). These are called “recipes” and are one of the main aspects of the CPL data-reduction development environment.

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

sudo apt-get -y install esorex

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

You can also use apt command to install esorex.

sudo apt -y install esorex

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

sudo aptitude install esorex

Summary

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