iptc command not found

Introduction

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

iptc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: iptc: command not found

Solutions to iptc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu iptc is provided by libiptcdata-bin package.

libiptcdata-bin is:

libiptcdata is a library, for manipulating the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) metadata stored within multimedia files such as images. The library provides routines for parsing, viewing, modifying, and saving this metadata.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libiptcdata-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libiptcdata-bin.

sudo apt -y install libiptcdata-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libiptcdata-bin

Summary

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