epstool command not found

Introduction

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

epstool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: epstool: command not found

Solutions to epstool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu epstool is provided by epstool package.

epstool is:

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) files may contain a preview to be used by programs that can’t interpret the PostScript code. epstool can create and extract such previews.

epstool can also calculate an optimal bounding box for an EPS file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install epstool

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

You can also use apt command to install epstool.

sudo apt -y install epstool

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

sudo aptitude install epstool

Summary

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