chkfont command not found

Introduction

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

chkfont: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: chkfont: command not found

Solutions to chkfont: command not found

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

In Ubuntu chkfont is provided by figlet package.

figlet is:

FIGlet (Frank, Ian & Glenn’s Letters) is a program that creates large characters out of ordinary screen characters.

It can create characters in many different styles and can kern and “smush” these characters together in various ways. FIGlet output is generally reminiscent of the sort of “signatures” many people like to put at the end of e-mail, Usenet and MOTD messages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install figlet

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

You can also use apt command to install figlet.

sudo apt -y install figlet

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

sudo aptitude install figlet

Summary

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