gdl command not found

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

Introduction

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

gdl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gdl: command not found

Solutions to gdl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gdl is provided by gnudatalanguage package.

gnudatalanguage is:

GNU Data Language (GDL) is a free IDL (Interactive Data Language) compatible incremental compiler. It has full syntax compatibility with IDL 7.1. IDL is a registered trademark of ITT Visual Information Solutions. From IDL 8.0, the following language elements are supported:

  • FOREACH loop
  • negative array indices
  • garbage collection pointers and objects
  • call methods on an object using “.” (e. g. object.aMemberProcedure,arg1)

The file input output system is fully implemented. GUI support (widgets) is officially provided, but it’s not complete yet.

This package contains the main commandline and interpreter frontend.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnudatalanguage

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

You can also use apt command to install gnudatalanguage.

sudo apt -y install gnudatalanguage

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

sudo aptitude install gnudatalanguage

Summary

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