get-edid command not found

Introduction

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

get-edid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: get-edid: command not found

Solutions to get-edid: command not found

How To Fix get-edid: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu get-edid is provided by read-edid package.

read-edid is:

read-edid consists of two tools:

get-edid uses a VESA VBE 2 interrupt service routine request to read a 128 byte EDID version 1 structure from your graphics card, which retrieves this information from the monitor via the Data Display Channel (DDC).

get-edid uses architecture-specific methods for querying the video hardware (real-mode x86 instructions on i386, Open Firmware device tree parsing on PowerMac) and is therefore only available for i386 and powerpc architectures.

parse-edid parses this data structure and outputs data suitable for inclusion into the XFree86 or X.org configuration file. It is available for any architecture.

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

sudo apt-get -y install read-edid

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

You can also use apt command to install read-edid.

sudo apt -y install read-edid

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

sudo aptitude install read-edid

Summary

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