vflmkpk command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix vflmkpk command not found error message

Introduction

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

vflmkpk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vflmkpk: command not found

Solutions to vflmkpk: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vflmkpk is provided by vflib3-bin package.

vflib3-bin 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 a few sample programs that come with VFlib3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install vflib3-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install vflib3-bin.

sudo apt -y install vflib3-bin

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

sudo aptitude install vflib3-bin

Summary

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