fped command not found

Introduction

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

fped: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fped: command not found

Solutions to fped: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fped is provided by fped package.

fped is:

fped is an editor that allows the interactive creation of footprints of electronic components. Footprint definitions are stored in a text format that resembles a programming language.

The language is constrained such that anything that can be expressed in the textual definition also has a straightforward equivalent operation that can be performed through the GUI.

A description of the GUI can be found here: http://downloads.qi-hardware.com/people/werner/fped/gui.html

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

sudo apt-get -y install fped

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

You can also use apt command to install fped.

sudo apt -y install fped

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

sudo aptitude install fped

Summary

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