source-extractor command not found

Introduction

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

source-extractor: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: source-extractor: command not found

Solutions to source-extractor: command not found

How To Fix source-extractor: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu source-extractor is provided by source-extractor package.

source-extractor is:

Find sources, such as stars and galaxies, in astronomical images. The input data files are in FITS file format, and are analyzed to compute the locations of sources, with the ability to distinguish between galaxies and stars using a neural-network technique.

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

sudo apt-get -y install source-extractor

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

You can also use apt command to install source-extractor.

sudo apt -y install source-extractor

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

sudo aptitude install source-extractor

Summary

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