dptfxtract-helper command not found

Introduction

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

dptfxtract-helper: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dptfxtract-helper: command not found

Solutions to dptfxtract-helper: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dptfxtract-helper 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-helper command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.