libwacom-update-db command not found

Introduction

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

libwacom-update-db: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: libwacom-update-db: command not found

Solutions to libwacom-update-db: command not found

How To Fix libwacom-update-db: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu libwacom-update-db is provided by libwacom-bin package.

libwacom-bin is:

libwacom is a library to identify wacom tablets and their model-specific features. It provides easy access to information such as “is this a built-in on-screen tablet”, “what is the size of this model”, etc.

This package contains the utilities which are used by the libraries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libwacom-bin

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

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

sudo apt -y install libwacom-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libwacom-bin

Summary

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