fontdump command not found

Introduction

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

fontdump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fontdump: command not found

Solutions to fontdump: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fontdump is provided by ree package.

ree is:

ROM extension extractor (ree) is a tool which extracts ROM extensions from the firmware of a PC computer. This package also comes with fontdump, a program to extract the fonts from your video BIOS.

ree will scan the system memory, address c0000 - f0000 in 512 byte steps for identification of ROM extensions (55,aa). If found, it will calculate its size (byte after id, multiplied by 512byte steps) and save the output to a .rom file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ree

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

You can also use apt command to install ree.

sudo apt -y install ree

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

sudo aptitude install ree

Summary

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