rkpad command not found

Introduction

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

rkpad: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rkpad: command not found

Solutions to rkpad: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rkpad is provided by rkflashtool package.

rkflashtool is:

Allows flashing of Rockchip based embedded linux devices. The list of currently supported devices is: RK2818, RK2918, RK2928, RK3026, RK3036, RK3066, RK312X, RK3168, RK3188, RK3228, RK3229, RK3288, RK3368

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

sudo apt-get -y install rkflashtool

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

You can also use apt command to install rkflashtool.

sudo apt -y install rkflashtool

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

sudo aptitude install rkflashtool

Summary

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