geotifcp command not found

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

Introduction

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

geotifcp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: geotifcp: command not found

Solutions to geotifcp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu geotifcp is provided by geotiff-bin package.

geotiff-bin is:

This C library supports TIFF 6.0 based interchange format for georeferenced raster imagery. The GeoTIFF standard has been developed for reading, and writing geographic meta-information tags on top of TIFF raster.

The GeoTIFF library comes with two utility programs here included:

listgeo - dumps the metadata of a GeoTIFF file. geotifcp - applies metadata to a TIFF file, making it a GeoTIFF file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install geotiff-bin

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

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

sudo apt -y install geotiff-bin

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

sudo aptitude install geotiff-bin

Summary

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