bootgen command not found

Introduction

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

bootgen: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bootgen: command not found

Solutions to bootgen: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bootgen is provided by bootgen-xlnx package.

bootgen-xlnx is:

Bootgen is a Xilinx tool that lets you stitch binary files together and generate device boot images. Bootgen defines multiple properties, attributes and parameters that are input while creating bootimages for use in a Xilinx device.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bootgen-xlnx

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

You can also use apt command to install bootgen-xlnx.

sudo apt -y install bootgen-xlnx

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

sudo aptitude install bootgen-xlnx

Summary

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