pnginspect command not found

Introduction

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

pnginspect: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pnginspect: command not found

Solutions to pnginspect: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pnginspect is provided by libimage-png-libpng-perl package.

libimage-png-libpng-perl is:

Image::PNG::Libpng is a Perl library for accessing the contents of PNG (Portable Network Graphics) images. Image::PNG::Libpng enables Perl to use the “libpng” library to read and write files in PNG format.

Image::PNG::Libpng consists of Perl subroutines which mirror the C functions in libpng, plus helper subroutines to make it easier to read and write PNG data in Perl.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libimage-png-libpng-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libimage-png-libpng-perl.

sudo apt -y install libimage-png-libpng-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libimage-png-libpng-perl

Summary

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