navit command not found

Introduction

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

navit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: navit: command not found

Solutions to navit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu navit is provided by navit package.

navit is:

Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine.

Its modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats for routing and rendering of the displayed map. It’s even possible to use multiple maps at a time.

The GTK+ or SDL user interfaces are designed to work well with touch screen displays. Points of Interest of various formats are displayed on the map.

The current vehicle position is either read from gpsd or directly from NMEA GPS sensors.

The routing engine not only calculates an optimal route to your destination, but also generates directions and even speaks to you using speech-dispatcher.

The Debian packaging for navit doesn’t provide any map. To see, where you can get maps from, see http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Main_Page#Maps.

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

sudo apt-get -y install navit

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

You can also use apt command to install navit.

sudo apt -y install navit

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

sudo aptitude install navit

Summary

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