magicsCompatibilityChecker command not found

Introduction

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

magicsCompatibilityChecker: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: magicsCompatibilityChecker: command not found

Solutions to magicsCompatibilityChecker: command not found

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

In Ubuntu magicsCompatibilityChecker is provided by libmagics++-dev package.

libmagics++-dev is:

Magics++ is the latest generation of the ECMWF’s Meteorological plotting software MAGICS. Although completely redesigned in C++, it is intended to be as backwards-compatible as possible with the Fortran interface. Besides its programming interfaces (Fortran and C), Magics++ offers MagML, a plot description language based on XML aimed at automatic web production.

This package includes the header files and static libraries needed to build against libmagics++.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmagics++-dev

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

You can also use apt command to install libmagics++-dev.

sudo apt -y install libmagics++-dev

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

sudo aptitude install libmagics++-dev

Summary

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