ots-sanitize command not found

Introduction

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

ots-sanitize: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ots-sanitize: command not found

Solutions to ots-sanitize: command not found

How To Fix ots-sanitize: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ots-sanitize is provided by opentype-sanitizer package.

opentype-sanitizer is:

The OpenType Sanitizer (OTS) parses and serializes OpenType files (OTF, TTF) and WOFF and WOFF2 font files, validating them and sanitizing them as it goes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install opentype-sanitizer

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

You can also use apt command to install opentype-sanitizer.

sudo apt -y install opentype-sanitizer

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

sudo aptitude install opentype-sanitizer

Summary

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