digikam command not found

Introduction

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

digikam: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: digikam: command not found

Solutions to digikam: command not found

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

In Ubuntu digikam is provided by digikam package.

digikam is:

Digital photo management program designed to import, organize, enhance, search and export your digital images to and from your computer.

It provides a simple interface which makes importing and organizing digital photographs a “snap”. digiKam enables you to manage large numbers of digital photographs in albums and to organize these photographs for easy retrieval using tags (keywords), captions, collections, dates, geolocation and searches. It has many features for viewing, organizing, processing and sharing your images. Thus, digiKam is a formidable digital asset management (DAM) software including powerful image editing functions.

An easy-to-use camera interface is provided, that will connect to your digital camera and download photographs directly into digiKam albums. More than 1000 digital cameras are supported by the gphoto2 library. Of course, any media or card reader supported by your operating system will interface with digiKam.

digiKam incorporates a fast Image Editor with many image editing tools. You can use the Image Editor to view your photographs, comment and rate them, correct, enhance and alter them. The editing power can be easily extended by a set of plugins, the KDE Image Plugins Interface (manual)

While digiKam remains easy to use, it provides professional level features by the dozens. It is fully 16 bit enabled including all available plugins, supports RAW format conversion through libraw, DNG export and ICC color management work flow.

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

sudo apt-get -y install digikam

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

You can also use apt command to install digikam.

sudo apt -y install digikam

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

sudo aptitude install digikam

Summary

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