qt2text command not found

Introduction

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

qt2text: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qt2text: command not found

Solutions to qt2text: command not found

How To Fix qt2text: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu qt2text is provided by quicktime-utils package.

quicktime-utils is:

libquicktime is a library for reading and writing QuickTime files on UNIX systems. Video CODECs supported by this library are OpenDivX, MJPA, JPEG Photo, PNG, RGB, YUV 4:2:2, and YUV 4:2:0 compression. Supported audio CODECs are Ogg Vorbis, IMA4, ulaw, and any linear PCM format.

This package contains additional utilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install quicktime-utils

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

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

sudo apt -y install quicktime-utils

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

sudo aptitude install quicktime-utils

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix qt2text command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.