etc1tool command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix etc1tool command not found error message

Introduction

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

etc1tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: etc1tool: command not found

Solutions to etc1tool: command not found

How To Fix etc1tool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu etc1tool is provided by etc1tool package.

etc1tool is:

etc1tool is a command line utility that lets you encode PNG images to the ETC1 compression standard and decode ETC1 compressed images back to PNG. It is part of the Android SDK for working with media files for game apps. The standard for the ETC1 texture format is here: http://www.khronos.org/registry/gles/extensions/OES/OES_compressed_ETC1_RGB8_texture.txt

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

sudo apt-get -y install etc1tool

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

You can also use apt command to install etc1tool.

sudo apt -y install etc1tool

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

sudo aptitude install etc1tool

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix etc1tool command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.