imgvview command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix imgvview command not found error message

Introduction

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

imgvview: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: imgvview: command not found

Solutions to imgvview: command not found

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

In Ubuntu imgvview is provided by imgvtopgm package.

imgvtopgm is:

This program can convert, compress, and decompress up to 4-bit grayscale images for displaying on the PalmPilot. It can take any pbm, pnm, pgm file generated by the netpbm package and convert it into a suitable image for the Pilot.

Together with netpbm many image formats, including JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and BMP, could be converted into PDB format. This can be displayed on PalmPilot/III by viewers like “ImageViewer”, “TinyViewer” or “Spec”.

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

sudo apt-get -y install imgvtopgm

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

You can also use apt command to install imgvtopgm.

sudo apt -y install imgvtopgm

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

sudo aptitude install imgvtopgm

Summary

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