update-vflibcap command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix update-vflibcap command not found error message

Introduction

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

update-vflibcap: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: update-vflibcap: command not found

Solutions to update-vflibcap: command not found

How To Fix update-vflibcap: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu update-vflibcap is provided by vflib3 package.

vflib3 is:

VFlib3 is a font rasterizer library for multi-lingual information processing. Using VFlib3, you can obtain bitmap data of characters(glyphs) from various fonts in a unified manner.

VFlib3 can handle almost all font formats available - it now supports PK, GF, VF, TFM, OFM level 0, OVF, PCF, BDF, HBF, Syotai-Club, JG, eKanji and more. TrueType and Type 1 fonts are also supported via FreeType2. Font search via kpathsea is supported, too.

This package contains the shared library and configuration files needed to run programs using VFlib3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vflib3

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

You can also use apt command to install vflib3.

sudo apt -y install vflib3

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

sudo aptitude install vflib3

Summary

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