mllp_send command not found

Introduction

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

mllp_send: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mllp_send: command not found

Solutions to mllp_send: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mllp_send is provided by python3-hl7 package.

python3-hl7 is:

HL7 is a communication protocol and message format for health care data. It is the de-facto standard for transmitting data between clinical information systems and between clinical devices. The version 2.x series, which is often is a pipe delimited format is currently the most widely accepted version of HL7 (version 3.0 is an XML-based format). python-hl7 currently only parses HL7 version 2.x messages into an easy to access, list-based, data structure.

This package contains the Python3 API.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-hl7

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-hl7.

sudo apt -y install python3-hl7

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

sudo aptitude install python3-hl7

Summary

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