opj_dump command not found

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

Introduction

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

opj_dump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: opj_dump: command not found

Solutions to opj_dump: command not found

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

In Ubuntu opj_dump is provided by libopenjp2-tools package.

libopenjp2-tools is:

This package provides with command-line tools allowing for conversions between several formats and also provides tools for encoding and decoding motion-jpeg2000 video formats:

opj_decompress: decodes j2k, jp2, and jpt files to pgm, ppm, pnm, pgx, and bmp.
opj_compress: encodes pnm, pgm, pgx, bmp, and ppm files to j2k, and jp2.
opj_dump: dump information contains in j2k and jp2.
index_create: create jp2 with JPIP index file from a j2k file.
frames_to_mj2: convert YUV video streams to mj2 format.
mj2_to_frames: convert mj2 video streams to YUV format.
wrap_j2k_in_mj2: wrap j2k codestreams into mj2 format.
extract-j2k-from_mj2: extract j2k codestreams from the mj2 format.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libopenjp2-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libopenjp2-tools.

sudo apt -y install libopenjp2-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libopenjp2-tools

Summary

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