animate command not found

Introduction

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

animate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: animate: command not found

Solutions to animate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu animate is provided by graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat package.

graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat is:

GraphicsMagick provides a set of command-line applications to manipulate image files. It is a fork of the ImageMagick project and therefore offers a similar set of features, but puts a larger emphasis on stability.

With this package installed, the GraphicsMagick command line tools can be executed like their ImageMagick counterparts. It allows one to migrate scripts from ImageMagick to GraphicsMagick without any code changes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat

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

You can also use apt command to install graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat.

sudo apt -y install graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat

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

sudo aptitude install graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat

Summary

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