sightrun.bin command not found

Introduction

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

sightrun.bin: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sightrun.bin: command not found

Solutions to sightrun.bin: command not found

How To Fix sightrun.bin: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sightrun.bin is provided by libsight package.

libsight is:

The Surgical Image Guidance and Healthcare Toolkit aims to ease the creation of applications based on medical imaging. It includes various features such as 2D and 3D digital image processing, visualization, augmented reality and medical interaction simulation. It runs on many different environments (Windows, Linux, macOS), is written in C++, and features rapid interface design using XML files.

Sight was formerly known as FW4SPL. It was renamed in 2018, firstly to make its purpose clearer, and secondly as part of a major change in design and in the governance of the development team.

This package provides the shared libraries needed to run C++ programs that use Sight.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsight

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

You can also use apt command to install libsight.

sudo apt -y install libsight

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

sudo aptitude install libsight

Summary

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