exiftags command not found

Introduction

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

exiftags: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: exiftags: command not found

Solutions to exiftags: command not found

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

In Ubuntu exiftags is provided by exiftags package.

exiftags is:

The exiftags utility parses a specified JPEG file or, by default, its standard input, looking for a JPEG APP1 section containing Exif (Exchangeable Image File) data. The properties contained in these data are then printed to the standard output. Digital cameras typically add Exif data to the image files they produce, containing information about the camera and digitized image.

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

sudo apt-get -y install exiftags

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

You can also use apt command to install exiftags.

sudo apt -y install exiftags

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

sudo aptitude install exiftags

Summary

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