git-annex-remote-datalad command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix git-annex-remote-datalad command not found error message

Introduction

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

git-annex-remote-datalad: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: git-annex-remote-datalad: command not found

Solutions to git-annex-remote-datalad: command not found

How To Fix git-annex-remote-datalad: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu git-annex-remote-datalad is provided by datalad package.

datalad is:

DataLad is a data management and distribution platform providing access to a wide range of data resources already available online. Using git-annex as its backend for data logistics it provides following facilities built-in or available through additional extensions

  • command line and Python interfaces for manipulation of collections of datasets (install, uninstall, update, publish, save, etc.) and separate files/directories (add, get)
  • extract, aggregate, and search through various sources of metadata (xmp, EXIF, etc; install datalad-neuroimaging for DICOM, BIDS, NIfTI support)
  • crawl web sites to automatically prepare and update git-annex repositories with content from online websites, S3, etc (install datalad-crawler)

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

sudo apt-get -y install datalad

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

You can also use apt command to install datalad.

sudo apt -y install datalad

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

sudo aptitude install datalad

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix git-annex-remote-datalad command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.