flpsed command not found

Introduction

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

flpsed: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: flpsed: command not found

Solutions to flpsed: command not found

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

In Ubuntu flpsed is provided by flpsed package.

flpsed is:

flpsed is a WYSIWYG pseudo PostScript editor. “Pseudo”, because isn’t possible to remove or modify existing elements of a document. But flpsed lets anyone to add arbitrary text lines to existing PostScript 1 documents. Added lines can later be reedited with flpsed.

Using pdftops, which is part of xpdf, one can convert PDF documents to PostScript and also add text to them. flpsed is useful for filling in forms, adding notes, etc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install flpsed

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

You can also use apt command to install flpsed.

sudo apt -y install flpsed

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

sudo aptitude install flpsed

Summary

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