gmtkbabel command not found

Introduction

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

gmtkbabel: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gmtkbabel: command not found

Solutions to gmtkbabel: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gmtkbabel is provided by gmtkbabel package.

gmtkbabel is:

gmtkbabel consists of a set of shell scripts which use zenity to provide a graphical user interface to mtkbabel. Mtkbabel is a command-line tool to operate GPS-unit with MTK (Mediatek) chipsets.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gmtkbabel

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

You can also use apt command to install gmtkbabel.

sudo apt -y install gmtkbabel

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

sudo aptitude install gmtkbabel

Summary

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