missfits command not found

Introduction

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

missfits: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: missfits: command not found

Solutions to missfits: command not found

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

In Ubuntu missfits is provided by missfits package.

missfits is:

MissFITS is a program that performs basic maintenance and packaging tasks on FITS files using an optimised FITS library. MissFITS can:

• add/edit/remove FITS header keywords
• split/join Multi-Extension-FITS (MEF) files
• unpile/pile FITS data-cubes
• create/check/update FITS checksums, using R. Seaman’s protocol.

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

sudo apt-get -y install missfits

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

You can also use apt command to install missfits.

sudo apt -y install missfits

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

sudo aptitude install missfits

Summary

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