stilts command not found

Introduction

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

stilts: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: stilts: command not found

Solutions to stilts: command not found

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

In Ubuntu stilts is provided by stilts package.

stilts is:

The STIL Tool Set is a set of command-line tools based on STIL, the Starlink Tables Infrastructure Library. It deals with the processing of tabular data; the package has been designed for, but is not restricted to, astronomical tables such as object catalogues. Some of the tools are generic and can work with multiple formats (including FITS, VOTable, CDF, CSV, SQL and ASCII), and others are specific to the VOTable format. In some ways, STILTS forms the command-line counterpart of the GUI table analysis tool TOPCAT. The package is robust, fully documented, and designed for efficiency, especially with very large datasets.

This package contains the executable.

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

sudo apt-get -y install stilts

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

You can also use apt command to install stilts.

sudo apt -y install stilts

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

sudo aptitude install stilts

Summary

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