ppmtoxvmini command not found

Introduction

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

ppmtoxvmini: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ppmtoxvmini: command not found

Solutions to ppmtoxvmini: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ppmtoxvmini is provided by makexvpics package.

makexvpics is:

This package includes a shell script and a C helper program to update XV/zgv/xzgv thumbnails from the command line.

Note that the thumbnails used by GNOME and KDE are in a different, incompatible format; you will need to use a tool designed for those desktops to create thumbnails for Nautilus or Konqueror.

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

sudo apt-get -y install makexvpics

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

You can also use apt command to install makexvpics.

sudo apt -y install makexvpics

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

sudo aptitude install makexvpics

Summary

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