sasview command not found

Introduction

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

sasview: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sasview: command not found

Solutions to sasview: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sasview is provided by sasview package.

sasview is:

SasView is a Small Angle Scattering Analysis Software Package, originally developed as part of the NSF DANSE project under the name SansView, now managed by an international collaboration of facilities.

SasView is software for the analysis of Small-Angle Scattering (SAS) data.

It fits analytic functions describing different types of material microstructure to experimental data in order to determine the shape, size and degree of ordering.

SasView also includes tools for calculating scattering length densities, slit sizes, resolution, fringe thicknesses/d-spacings, the (Porod) invariant (’total scattering’), and distance distribution functions.

This package installs the sasview executable script.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sasview

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

You can also use apt command to install sasview.

sudo apt -y install sasview

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

sudo aptitude install sasview

Summary

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