svm-train command not found

Introduction

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

svm-train: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: svm-train: command not found

Solutions to svm-train: command not found

How To Fix svm-train: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu svm-train is provided by libsvm-tools package.

libsvm-tools is:

LIBSVM is an easy-to-use package for support vector classification, regression and one-class SVM. It supports multi-class classification, probability outputs, and parameter selection.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsvm-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libsvm-tools.

sudo apt -y install libsvm-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libsvm-tools

Summary

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