mmc_format command not found

Introduction

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

mmc_format: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mmc_format: command not found

Solutions to mmc_format: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mmc_format is provided by udfclient package.

udfclient is:

UDFclient is a userland implementation of the UDF filesystem as defined by the OSTA group. UDFclient is designed to be a study platform and a run-up to a full read and write kernel level implementation.

Except udfclient it contains additional utilities:

cd_disect - Display report of disc cd_sessions - Show sessions on disc mmc_format - Format optical disc newfs_udf - Create UDF filesystem on file or a formatted disc udfclient - FTP-like client for UDF filesystem udfdump - Dump information from UDF filesystem

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

sudo apt-get -y install udfclient

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

You can also use apt command to install udfclient.

sudo apt -y install udfclient

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

sudo aptitude install udfclient

Summary

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