inspectrum command not found

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

Introduction

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

inspectrum: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: inspectrum: command not found

Solutions to inspectrum: command not found

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

In Ubuntu inspectrum is provided by inspectrum package.

inspectrum is:

inspectrum is a tool for analysing captured signals, primarily from software-defined radio receivers.

inspectrum supports the following file types: *.cf32, *.cfile - Complex 32-bit floating point (GNURadio, osmocom_fft) *.cs16 - Complex 16-bit signed integer (BladeRF) *.cs8 - Complex 8-bit signed integer (HackRF) *.cu8 - Complex 8-bit unsigned integer (RTL-SDR)

Features:

Large (100GB+) file support
Spectrogram with zoom/pan
Plots of amplitude, frequency, phase and IQ samples
Cursors for measuring period, symbol rate and extracting symbols
Export of selected time period, filtered samples and demodulated data

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

sudo apt-get -y install inspectrum

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

You can also use apt command to install inspectrum.

sudo apt -y install inspectrum

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

sudo aptitude install inspectrum

Summary

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