geosop command not found

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

Introduction

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

geosop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: geosop: command not found

Solutions to geosop: command not found

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

In Ubuntu geosop is provided by geos-bin package.

geos-bin is:

GEOS provides a spatial object model and fundamental geometric functions. It implements the geometry model defined in the OpenGIS Consortium Simple Features Specification for SQL. Functions provided include:

  • spatial predicates (based on the DE-9IM model),
  • overlay functions (intersection, difference, union, symmetric difference),
  • buffer,
  • convex hull,
  • area and distance functions, and
  • topological validity checking

This package contains the utilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install geos-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install geos-bin.

sudo apt -y install geos-bin

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

sudo aptitude install geos-bin

Summary

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