ufo-mkfilter command not found

Introduction

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

ufo-mkfilter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ufo-mkfilter: command not found

Solutions to ufo-mkfilter: command not found

How To Fix ufo-mkfilter: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ufo-mkfilter is provided by libufo-bin package.

libufo-bin is:

The UFO data processing framework is a C library suited to build general purpose streams data processing on heterogeneous architectures such as CPUs, GPUs or clusters. It is extensively used at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for Ultra-fast X-ray Imaging (radiography, tomography and laminography).

A gobject-instrospection binding is also provided to write scripts or user interfaces.

This package contains binaries to run JSON descriptions of task graphs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libufo-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libufo-bin.

sudo apt -y install libufo-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libufo-bin

Summary

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