mkdgiff command not found

Introduction

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

mkdgiff: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mkdgiff: command not found

Solutions to mkdgiff: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mkdgiff is provided by libdirectfb-bin package.

libdirectfb-bin is:

DirectFB is a graphics library which was designed with embedded systems in mind. It offers maximum hardware accelerated performance at a minimum of resource usage and overhead.

This package contains the DirectFB background configuration tool and the source generation tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdirectfb-bin

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

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

sudo apt -y install libdirectfb-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libdirectfb-bin

Summary

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