mutool command not found

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

Introduction

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

mutool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mutool: command not found

In Ubuntu mutool is provided by mupdf-tools package.

mupdf-tools is:

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer and toolkit written in portable C. It also reads XPS, OpenXPS and ePub documents.

This package contains command line tools using the MuPDF library:

mutool - tool for clean, extract, inspect PDF documents and render PDF/XPS/CBZ documents.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mupdf-tools

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

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

sudo apt -y install mupdf-tools

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

sudo aptitude install mupdf-tools

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