readstat command not found

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

Introduction

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

readstat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: readstat: command not found

Solutions to readstat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu readstat is provided by readstat package.

readstat is:

ReadStat is a command-line tool and MIT-licensed C library for reading files from popular stats packages. Supported data formats include:

  • SAS: SAS7BDAT (binary file) and XPORT (transport file)
  • Stata: DTA (binary file) versions 104-119
  • SPSS: POR (portable file), SAV (binary file), and ZSAV (compressed binary)

Supported metadata formats include:

  • SAS: SAS7BCAT (catalog file) and .sas (command file)
  • Stata: .dct (dictionary file)
  • SPSS: .sps (command file)

There is also write support for all the data formats, but not the metadata formats.

This package contains the command line tools: readstat, and extract_metadata.

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

sudo apt-get -y install readstat

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

You can also use apt command to install readstat.

sudo apt -y install readstat

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

sudo aptitude install readstat

Summary

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