gifecho command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix gifecho command not found error message

Introduction

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

gifecho: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gifecho: command not found

In Ubuntu gifecho is provided by giflib-tools package.

giflib-tools is:

GIFLIB is a package of portable tools and library routines for working with GIF images.

This package contains additional utilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install giflib-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install giflib-tools.

sudo apt -y install giflib-tools

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

sudo aptitude install giflib-tools

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