topcat command not found

Introduction

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

topcat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: topcat: command not found

Solutions to topcat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu topcat is provided by topcat package.

topcat is:

TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. Its aim is to provide most of the facilities that astronomers need for analysis and manipulation of source catalogues and other tables, though it can be used for non-astronomical data as well. It understands a number of different astronomically important formats (including FITS and VOTable) and more formats can be added.

This package contains the executable.

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

sudo apt-get -y install topcat

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

You can also use apt command to install topcat.

sudo apt -y install topcat

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

sudo aptitude install topcat

Summary

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