mtdev-test command not found

Introduction

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

mtdev-test: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mtdev-test: command not found

Solutions to mtdev-test: command not found

How To Fix mtdev-test: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mtdev-test is provided by mtdev-tools package.

mtdev-tools is:

libmtdev is a library for translating evdev multitouch events using the legacy protocol to the new multitouch slots protocol. This is necessary for kernel drivers that have not been updated to use the newer protocol.

This package provides some test tools for the libmtdev library.

• mtdev-test: prints the information coming from the kernel

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

sudo apt-get -y install mtdev-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install mtdev-tools.

sudo apt -y install mtdev-tools

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

sudo aptitude install mtdev-tools

Summary

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