osmfilter command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix osmfilter command not found error message

Introduction

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

osmfilter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: osmfilter: command not found

In Ubuntu osmfilter is provided by osmctools package.

osmctools is:

Small collection of basic OpenStreetMap tools, include converter, filter and updater files.

Programs include: osmconvert - Converter of OSM files osmfilter - The experimental OSM filters data osmupdate - Update OSM files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install osmctools

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

You can also use apt command to install osmctools.

sudo apt -y install osmctools

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

sudo aptitude install osmctools

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