ift-extract command not found

Introduction

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

ift-extract: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ift-extract: command not found

Solutions to ift-extract: command not found

How To Fix ift-extract: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ift-extract is provided by isight-firmware-tools package.

isight-firmware-tools is:

Apple Built-in iSight requires firmware that can be extracted from the Mac OS X USBVideo driver. This package provides tools for extracting the firmware from the driver and installing udev rules and tools to automatically load the firmware when needed.

A convenient tool for converting firmware binaries to Intel HEX format is also provided. This may be required later for use with a generic firmware loader such as fxload.

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

sudo apt-get -y install isight-firmware-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install isight-firmware-tools.

sudo apt -y install isight-firmware-tools

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

sudo aptitude install isight-firmware-tools

Summary

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