gbdfed command not found

Introduction

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

gbdfed: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gbdfed: command not found

Solutions to gbdfed: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gbdfed is provided by gbdfed package.

gbdfed is:

gbdfed lets you interactively create new bitmap font files or modify existing ones. It allows editing multiple fonts and multiple glyphs, it allows cut and paste operations between fonts and glyphs and editing font properties. The editor works natively with BDF fonts.

This editor is the successor of xmbdfed and is using the GTK+ toolkit instead of the Motif toolkit for better user experience.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gbdfed

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

You can also use apt command to install gbdfed.

sudo apt -y install gbdfed

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

sudo aptitude install gbdfed

Summary

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