dfu-tool command not found

Introduction

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

dfu-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dfu-tool: command not found

Solutions to dfu-tool: command not found

How To Fix dfu-tool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dfu-tool is provided by fwupd package.

fwupd is:

fwupd is a daemon to allow session software to update device firmware. You can either use a GUI software manager like GNOME Software to view and apply updates, the command-line tool or the system D-Bus interface directly. Firmware updates are supported for a variety of technologies. See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd for details

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

sudo apt-get -y install fwupd

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

You can also use apt command to install fwupd.

sudo apt -y install fwupd

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

sudo aptitude install fwupd

Summary

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