mmc command not found

Introduction

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

mmc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mmc: command not found

Solutions to mmc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mmc is provided by mmc-utils package.

mmc-utils is:

mmc-utils is a tool that supports the MMC device development of Linux kernel.

The mmc-utils tools can do the following:

• Print and parse extcsd data.
• Determine the eMMC writeprotect status.
• Set the eMMC writeprotect status.
• Set the eMMC data sector size to 4KB by disabling emulation.
• Create general purpose partition.
• Enable the enhanced user area.
• Enable write reliability per partition.
• Print the response to STATUS_SEND (CMD13).
• Enable the boot partition.
• Set Boot Bus Conditions.
• Enable the eMMC BKOPS feature.
• Permanently enable the eMMC H/W Reset feature.
• Permanently disable the eMMC H/W Reset feature.
• Send Sanitize command.
• Program authentication key for the device.
• Counter value for the rpmb device will be read to stdout.
• Read from rpmb device to output.
• Write to rpmb device from data file.
• Enable the eMMC cache feature.
• Disable the eMMC cache feature.
• Print and parse CID data.
• Print and parse CSD data.
• Print and parse SCR data.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mmc-utils

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

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

sudo apt -y install mmc-utils

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

sudo aptitude install mmc-utils

Summary

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