mtpaint command not found

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

Introduction

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

mtpaint: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mtpaint: command not found

Solutions to mtpaint: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mtpaint is provided by mtpaint package.

mtpaint is:

mtPaint is a free, open source graphic editing program which uses the GTK+ toolkit. It is geared towards creating indexed palette images and pixel art.

Due to its efficient design it can run on older PC hardware (e.g. a 200MHz CPU and 32MB of RAM). It can edit indexed palette or 24 bit RGB images and offers basic painting and palette manipulation tools.

It is aimed to be simple and easy to use. it also can handle JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, XPM, and XBM files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mtpaint

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

You can also use apt command to install mtpaint.

sudo apt -y install mtpaint

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

sudo aptitude install mtpaint

Summary

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