testfpzip command not found

Introduction

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

testfpzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: testfpzip: command not found

Solutions to testfpzip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu testfpzip is provided by fpzip-utils package.

fpzip-utils is:

fpzip is a library and command-line utility for lossless and optionally lossy compression of 2D and 3D floating-point arrays. fpzip assumes spatially correlated scalar-valued data, such as regularly sampled continuous functions, and is not suitable for compressing unstructured streams of floating-point numbers. This package provides command-line utilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fpzip-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install fpzip-utils.

sudo apt -y install fpzip-utils

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

sudo aptitude install fpzip-utils

Summary

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