parse-mars-request command not found

Introduction

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

parse-mars-request: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: parse-mars-request: command not found

Solutions to parse-mars-request: command not found

How To Fix parse-mars-request: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu parse-mars-request is provided by libmetkit-utils package.

libmetkit-utils is:

MetKit is a toolkit from ECMWF for manipulating and describing meteorological objects, implementing the MARS language and associated processing and semantics.

This package contains the tool ‘parse-mars-request’

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmetkit-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install libmetkit-utils.

sudo apt -y install libmetkit-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libmetkit-utils

Summary

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