cdr2raw command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix cdr2raw command not found error message

Introduction

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

cdr2raw: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cdr2raw: command not found

Solutions to cdr2raw: command not found

How To Fix cdr2raw: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu cdr2raw is provided by libcdr-tools package.

libcdr-tools is:

libcdr is a library and a set of tools for reading and converting binary files produced by Corel DRAW.

libcdr currently supports just CDR files from V7 to X3 and the following features:

  • pages and page sizes
  • shapes, lines, Bezier curves, bitmaps
  • flat color fills, both RGB, CMYK, HLS and HSB
  • different kinds of strokes including dashed strokes

Above that libcdr provides a public API for rendering preview of pages for applications that have no notion of pages themselves.

This package contains cdr2xtml/cdr2raw and cmx2xhtml/cmx2raw.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libcdr-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install libcdr-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libcdr-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix cdr2raw command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.