bmaptool command not found

Introduction

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

bmaptool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bmaptool: command not found

Solutions to bmaptool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu bmaptool is provided by bmap-tools package.

bmap-tools is:

bmaptool is a generic tool for creating the block map (bmap) for a file, and copying files using the block map. The idea is that large file containing unused blocks, like raw system image files, can be copied or flashed a lot faster with bmaptool than with traditional tools like “dd” or “cp”.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bmap-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install bmap-tools

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

sudo aptitude install bmap-tools

Summary

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