jpegoptim command not found

Introduction

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

jpegoptim: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jpegoptim: command not found

Solutions to jpegoptim: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jpegoptim is provided by jpegoptim package.

jpegoptim is:

Jpegoptim can optimize/compress jpeg files. Program support lossless optimization, which is based on optimizing the Huffman tables. So called, “lossy” optimization (compression) is done by re-encoding the image using user specified image quality factor.

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

sudo apt-get -y install jpegoptim

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

You can also use apt command to install jpegoptim.

sudo apt -y install jpegoptim

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

sudo aptitude install jpegoptim

Summary

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