fpwmake command not found

Introduction

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

fpwmake: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fpwmake: command not found

Solutions to fpwmake: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fpwmake is provided by freepwing package.

freepwing is:

This program translates data in various “Electric Book” (popular in Japan) formats into a single JIS X 4081 format. JIS X 4081 is a subset of the EPWING V1, which is the standardized format for electric publishing. Thus after conversion, you can read such data with your favorite EPWING viewer without worrying which formats your data originally were.

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

sudo apt-get -y install freepwing

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

You can also use apt command to install freepwing.

sudo apt -y install freepwing

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

sudo aptitude install freepwing

Summary

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