jsamp command not found

Introduction

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

jsamp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jsamp: command not found

Solutions to jsamp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jsamp is provided by jsamp package.

jsamp is:

Command-line tool for the Simple Application Messaging Protocol (SAMP) for the Virtual Observatory (VO). This allows direct access to low-level operations such as starting a local SAMP communications hub for other applications such as Aladin, Topcat and Splat-VO to communication with each other.

In addition to starting a SAMP Hub, the ‘jsamp’ tool allows for monitoring, snooping, testing, and stress running hub instances, or setting up a bridge proxy between two or SAMP hub instances.

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

sudo apt-get -y install jsamp

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

You can also use apt command to install jsamp.

sudo apt -y install jsamp

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

sudo aptitude install jsamp

Summary

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