shp_sanitize command not found

Introduction

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

shp_sanitize: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: shp_sanitize: command not found

Solutions to shp_sanitize: command not found

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

In Ubuntu shp_sanitize is provided by spatialite-bin package.

spatialite-bin is:

The SpatiaLite extension enables SQLite to support spatial (geometry) data in a way conformant to OpenGis specifications, with both WKT and WKB formats.

Spatialite also includes Virtualshape and Virtualtext to enable accessing shapefiles and csv/text files as virtual tables.

This package contains tools useful to manage SQLite databases.

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

sudo apt-get -y install spatialite-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install spatialite-bin.

sudo apt -y install spatialite-bin

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

sudo aptitude install spatialite-bin

Summary

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