mifare-desfire-access command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix mifare-desfire-access command not found error message

Introduction

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

mifare-desfire-access: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mifare-desfire-access: command not found

In Ubuntu mifare-desfire-access is provided by libfreefare-bin package.

libfreefare-bin is:

The libfreefare project aims to provide a convenient API for MIFARE card manipulations.

This package includes some binaries that are useful for development purposes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libfreefare-bin

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

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

sudo apt -y install libfreefare-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libfreefare-bin

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