pdfposter command not found

Introduction

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

pdfposter: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pdfposter: command not found

Solutions to pdfposter: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pdfposter is provided by pdfposter package.

pdfposter is:

Pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from multiple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together building the poster. The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size.

This is much like poster does for Postscript files, but working with PDF. Since sometimes poster does not like your files converted from PDF. :-) Indeed pdfposter was inspired by poster. For more information please refer to the manpage or visit the project homepage

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

sudo apt-get -y install pdfposter

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

You can also use apt command to install pdfposter.

sudo apt -y install pdfposter

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

sudo aptitude install pdfposter

Summary

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