pktcdvd-check command not found

Introduction

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

pktcdvd-check: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pktcdvd-check: command not found

Solutions to pktcdvd-check: command not found

How To Fix pktcdvd-check: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pktcdvd-check is provided by udftools package.

udftools is:

This package contains a number of user-space tools related to creating filesystems in the UDF (Universal Disk Format), which is primarily used for DVDs, but sometimes also CD-ROMs and HDDs:

mkudffs - Format a device, creating an empty UDF filesystem udflabel - show or change UDF filesystem label udfinfo - show information about UDF filesystem wrudf - Maintains a UDF filesystem cdrwtool - Low-level drive management (e.g. set writing speed, format) pktsetup - Set up a packet writing device (/dev/pktcdvd0) for a drive

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

sudo apt-get -y install udftools

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

You can also use apt command to install udftools.

sudo apt -y install udftools

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

sudo aptitude install udftools

Summary

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