validate_hdmf_spec command not found

Introduction

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

validate_hdmf_spec: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: validate_hdmf_spec: command not found

Solutions to validate_hdmf_spec: command not found

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

In Ubuntu validate_hdmf_spec is provided by python3-hdmf package.

python3-hdmf is:

The Hierarchical Data Modeling Framework (HDMF) is a Python package for working with hierarchical data. It provides APIs for specifying data models, reading and writing data to different storage backends, and representing data with Python object.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-hdmf

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-hdmf.

sudo apt -y install python3-hdmf

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

sudo aptitude install python3-hdmf

Summary

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