heimdall-frontend command not found

Introduction

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

heimdall-frontend: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: heimdall-frontend: command not found

Solutions to heimdall-frontend: command not found

How To Fix heimdall-frontend: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu heimdall-frontend is provided by heimdall-flash-frontend package.

heimdall-flash-frontend is:

Heimdall is a tool for flashing firmware (aka ROMs) onto Samsung Galaxy S devices over a USB connection. It accomplishes this using the same protocol as Odin, Samsung’s internal Windows-only firmware updater.

This package includes a Qt-based frontend for managing Galaxy devices.

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

sudo apt-get -y install heimdall-flash-frontend

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

You can also use apt command to install heimdall-flash-frontend.

sudo apt -y install heimdall-flash-frontend

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

sudo aptitude install heimdall-flash-frontend

Summary

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