fdb-read command not found

Introduction

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

fdb-read: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fdb-read: command not found

Solutions to fdb-read: command not found

How To Fix fdb-read: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fdb-read is provided by fdb5 package.

fdb5 is:

FDB (Fields DataBase) is a domain-specific object store developed at ECMWF for storing, indexing and retrieving GRIB data. Each GRIB message is stored as a field and indexed trough semantic metadata (i.e. physical variables such as temperature, pressure, …). A set of fields can be retrieved specifying a request using a specific language developed for accessing the MARS Archive.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fdb5

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

You can also use apt command to install fdb5.

sudo apt -y install fdb5

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

sudo aptitude install fdb5

Summary

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