exiftran command not found

Introduction

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

exiftran: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: exiftran: command not found

Solutions to exiftran: command not found

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

In Ubuntu exiftran is provided by exiftran package.

exiftran is:

exiftran is a command line utility to transform digital camera JPEG images. It can do lossless rotations like jpegtran, but unlike jpegtran it can process multiple images at once, and it cares about the Exif data: it can rotate images automatically by checking the Exif orientation tag, it updates the Exif information (image dimensions/orientation) if needed, and it also rotates the Exif thumbnail.

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

sudo apt-get -y install exiftran

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

You can also use apt command to install exiftran.

sudo apt -y install exiftran

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

sudo aptitude install exiftran

Summary

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