hdfview command not found

Introduction

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

hdfview: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hdfview: command not found

Solutions to hdfview: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hdfview is provided by hdfview package.

hdfview is:

HDF is a versatile data model that can represent very complex data objects and a wide variety of metadata. It is a completely portable file format with no limit on the number or size of data objects in the collection.

This package provides a HDF4/HDF5 viewer.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hdfview

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

You can also use apt command to install hdfview.

sudo apt -y install hdfview

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

sudo aptitude install hdfview

Summary

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