mercantile command not found

Introduction

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

mercantile: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mercantile: command not found

Solutions to mercantile: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mercantile is provided by mercantile package.

mercantile is:

The mercantile module provides functions that respectively return the upper left corner and bounding longitudes and latitudes for XYZ tiles, spherical mercator x and y coordinates, tile containing a given point, and quadkey conversion functions for translating between quadkey and tile coordinates.

Also in mercantile are functions to traverse the tile stack. Named tuples are used to represent tiles, coordinates, and bounding boxes.

This package contains the mercantile utility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mercantile

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

You can also use apt command to install mercantile.

sudo apt -y install mercantile

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

sudo aptitude install mercantile

Summary

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