volk_modtool command not found

Introduction

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

volk_modtool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: volk_modtool: command not found

Solutions to volk_modtool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu volk_modtool is provided by libvolk2-bin package.

libvolk2-bin is:

Vector-Optimized Library of Kernels is designed to help applications work with the processor’s SIMD instruction sets. These are very powerful vector operations that can give signal processing a huge boost in performance.

This package includes: the volk_profile tool to customize settings for the system; volk_modtool to create new optimized modules; and volk-config-info to show settings.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libvolk2-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libvolk2-bin.

sudo apt -y install libvolk2-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libvolk2-bin

Summary

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