exifgrep command not found

Introduction

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

exifgrep: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: exifgrep: command not found

Solutions to exifgrep: command not found

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

In Ubuntu exifgrep is provided by exifprobe package.

exifprobe is:

Exifprobe reads image files produced by digital cameras (including several so-called “raw” file formats) and reports the structure of the files and the auxiliary data and metadata contained within them.

In addition to TIFF, JPEG and EXIF, the program understands several formats which may contain “raw” camera data, including MRW, CIFF/CRW, JP2/JPEG2000, RAF, and X3F, as well as most TIFF-derived “raw” formats, including DNG, ORF, CR2, NEF, K25/KDC/DCR and PEF.

This program is useful in forensics investigations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install exifprobe

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

You can also use apt command to install exifprobe.

sudo apt -y install exifprobe

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

sudo aptitude install exifprobe

Summary

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