yaz-illclient command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix yaz-illclient command not found error message

Introduction

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

yaz-illclient: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: yaz-illclient: command not found

In Ubuntu yaz-illclient is provided by yaz-illclient package.

yaz-illclient is:

YAZ is a toolkit for the development of client and server software built around the ANSI Z39.50 (ISO 23950) standard for information retrieval.

YAZ supports Z39.50-2003 (version 3), SRU versions 1.1 to 2.0, and the industry standard ZOOM API for Z39.50.

The yaz-illclient program is a command-line client that sends ISO ILL requests to a server and decodes the response.

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

sudo apt-get -y install yaz-illclient

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

You can also use apt command to install yaz-illclient.

sudo apt -y install yaz-illclient

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

sudo aptitude install yaz-illclient

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