tiffdither command not found

Introduction

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

tiffdither: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tiffdither: command not found

Solutions to tiffdither: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tiffdither is provided by libtiff-tools package.

libtiff-tools is:

libtiff is a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data. This package includes tools for converting TIFF images to and from other formats and tools for doing simple manipulations of TIFF images. See also libtiff-opengl.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libtiff-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libtiff-tools.

sudo apt -y install libtiff-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libtiff-tools

Summary

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