fontlint command not found

Introduction

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

fontlint: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fontlint: command not found

Solutions to fontlint: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fontlint is provided by fontforge package.

fontforge is:

FontForge is a font editor. Use it to create, edit and convert fonts in OpenType, TrueType, UFO, CID-keyed, Multiple Master, and many other formats.

This package also provides these programs and utilities: fontimage - produce a font thumbnail image; fontlint - checks the font for certain common errors; sfddiff - compare two font files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fontforge

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

You can also use apt command to install fontforge.

sudo apt -y install fontforge

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

sudo aptitude install fontforge

Summary

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