iso-read command not found

Introduction

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

iso-read: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: iso-read: command not found

Solutions to iso-read: command not found

How To Fix iso-read: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu iso-read is provided by libcdio-utils package.

libcdio-utils is:

This package contains a collection of small libcdio-based tools:

• cd-drive show CD-ROM drive characteristics
• cd-info show information about a CD or CD-image
• cd-paranoia an audio CD ripper
• cd-read read information from a CD or CD-image
• cdda-player a simple curses-based audio CD player
• iso-info show information about an ISO 9660 image
• iso-read read portions of an ISO 9660 image
• mmc-tool issue low-level commands to a CD drive

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

sudo apt-get -y install libcdio-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install libcdio-utils.

sudo apt -y install libcdio-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libcdio-utils

Summary

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