mrtdreader command not found

Introduction

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

mrtdreader: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mrtdreader: command not found

Solutions to mrtdreader: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mrtdreader is provided by mrtdreader package.

mrtdreader is:

This program takes as input the content of the machine-readable zone of machine-readable travel documents and then reads out some data and dumps the facial image to a file.

It is the example application delivered together with libmrtd.

Only reader devices which are fully supported by libnfc will work.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mrtdreader

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

You can also use apt command to install mrtdreader.

sudo apt -y install mrtdreader

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

sudo aptitude install mrtdreader

Summary

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