mkimage command not found

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

Introduction

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

mkimage: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mkimage: command not found

In Ubuntu mkimage is provided by u-boot-tools package.

u-boot-tools is:

This package includes programs for generating and listing U-Boot images in various formats:

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

sudo apt-get -y install u-boot-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install u-boot-tools.

sudo apt -y install u-boot-tools

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

sudo aptitude install u-boot-tools

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