jpegparse command not found

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

Introduction

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

jpegparse: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: jpegparse: command not found

Solutions to jpegparse: command not found

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

In Ubuntu jpegparse is provided by libpixelmed-codec-java package.

libpixelmed-codec-java is:

Pixelmed is a stand-alone DICOM toolkit that implements code for reading and creating DICOM data, DICOM network and file support, a database of DICOM objects, support for display of directories, images, reports and spectra, and DICOM object validation.

This package contains the JPEG selective block redaction codec as well as the jpegparse command line tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpixelmed-codec-java

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

You can also use apt command to install libpixelmed-codec-java.

sudo apt -y install libpixelmed-codec-java

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

sudo aptitude install libpixelmed-codec-java

Summary

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