dptfxtract command not found

Introduction

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

dptfxtract: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dptfxtract: command not found

Solutions to dptfxtract: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dptfxtract is provided by dptfxtract package.

dptfxtract is:

This is a companion tool to Linux Thermal Daemon (thermald). This tool tries to reuse some of the tables used by “Intel ® Dynamic Platform and Thermal Framework (Intel® DPTF)” by converting to the thermal_conf.xml format used by thermald.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dptfxtract

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

You can also use apt command to install dptfxtract.

sudo apt -y install dptfxtract

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

sudo aptitude install dptfxtract

Summary

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