fontmatrix command not found

Introduction

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

fontmatrix: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fontmatrix: command not found

Solutions to fontmatrix: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fontmatrix is provided by fontmatrix package.

fontmatrix is:

This is a manager built with the kind of features and abilities graphic designers, layout professionals along with others have felt necessary, but modernized with some new touches.

Fontmatrix has a concept of ’tagging’. This makes it really nice to group fonts and even sub-group them logically for use in a book for instance. It also has extensive gui support for showing all glyphs in a font, previews of sample text, variable sizing and also tells what kinds of advanced Open Type features are inside each font. These features have never been seen outside of a font editor. And not least, it creates a nice PDF catalogue of user’s fonts for printing or reference. In short, fontmatrix is a font manager for professionals, but is nice and user friendly.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fontmatrix

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

You can also use apt command to install fontmatrix.

sudo apt -y install fontmatrix

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

sudo aptitude install fontmatrix

Summary

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