flexloader command not found

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

Introduction

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

flexloader: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: flexloader: command not found

Solutions to flexloader: command not found

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

In Ubuntu flexloader is provided by flexloader package.

flexloader is:

flexloader is a small utility to configure SRAM based ALTERA devices. It downloads a code to the device SRAM using an ALTERA ByteBlaster or a compatible JTAG programmer. It dialogs with it through the parallel interface, using parport.

It supports APEX20K, FLEX10K, FLEX6000 and ACEX1K families.

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

sudo apt-get -y install flexloader

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

You can also use apt command to install flexloader.

sudo apt -y install flexloader

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

sudo aptitude install flexloader

Summary

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