mkgmapgui command not found

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

Introduction

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

mkgmapgui: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mkgmapgui: command not found

Solutions to mkgmapgui: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mkgmapgui is provided by mkgmapgui package.

mkgmapgui is:

mkgmapgui is a GUI front end to mkgmap, a command-line utility for converting OpenStreetMap map files to files that can be uploaded to a Garmin GPS device.

While not all the advanced features of mkgmap are implemented in mkgmapgui, the most used are. mkgmapgui implements the following features:

  • Converting an .osm file into a Garmin .img file
  • Combining multiple .img files into one .img file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mkgmapgui

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

You can also use apt command to install mkgmapgui.

sudo apt -y install mkgmapgui

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

sudo aptitude install mkgmapgui

Summary

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