makebootfat command not found

Introduction

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

makebootfat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: makebootfat: command not found

Solutions to makebootfat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu makebootfat is provided by makebootfat package.

makebootfat is:

Makebootfat is a command line utility able to create bootable USB disks using the FAT filesystem and syslinux.

Makebootfat is the most advanced tool available able to make bootable USB disks. It is able to autodetect/partition/format/populate the USB disk in a single step without any user interaction. It’s also able to create disk images which are compatible with all the three standards USB-FDD, USB-HDD and USB-ZIP at the same time.

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

sudo apt-get -y install makebootfat

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

You can also use apt command to install makebootfat.

sudo apt -y install makebootfat

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

sudo aptitude install makebootfat

Summary

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