esptool command not found

Introduction

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

esptool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: esptool: command not found

Solutions to esptool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu esptool is provided by esptool package.

esptool is:

Communicate with the ROM bootloader in Espressif ESP8266 and ESP32 chips to fash firmware files, create firmware images or read OTP ROM or flash memory content such is manufacturer or device IDs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install esptool

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

You can also use apt command to install esptool.

sudo apt -y install esptool

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

sudo aptitude install esptool

Summary

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