ff2ppm command not found

Introduction

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

ff2ppm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ff2ppm: command not found

Solutions to ff2ppm: command not found

How To Fix ff2ppm: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ff2ppm is provided by farbfeld package.

farbfeld is:

Farbfeld is a lossless image format designed to be parsed and piped easily. It is designed to be as simple as possible, leaving the task of compression to outside tools, beating PNG’s filesize in many cases.

This package contains tools for converting between farbfeld format and other image formats (png, jpeg, ppm, pam, gif).

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

sudo apt-get -y install farbfeld

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

You can also use apt command to install farbfeld.

sudo apt -y install farbfeld

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

sudo aptitude install farbfeld

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix ff2ppm command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.