jhead command not found

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

Introduction

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

jhead: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jhead: command not found

Solutions to jhead: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jhead is provided by jhead package.

jhead is:

jhead is a command line driven utility for extracting digital camera settings from the Exif format files used by many digital cameras. It handles the various confusing ways these can be expressed, and displays them as F-stop, shutter speed, etc. It is also able to reduce the size of digital camera JPEGs without loss of information, by deleting integral thumbnails that digital cameras put into the Exif header.

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

sudo apt-get -y install jhead

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

You can also use apt command to install jhead.

sudo apt -y install jhead

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

sudo aptitude install jhead

Summary

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