podofotxtextract command not found

Introduction

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

podofotxtextract: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: podofotxtextract: command not found

Solutions to podofotxtextract: command not found

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

In Ubuntu podofotxtextract is provided by libpodofo-utils package.

libpodofo-utils is:

The PoDoFo library is a free, portable C++ library which includes classes to parse PDF files and modify their contents into memory. The changes can be written back to disk easily. The parser can also be used to extract information from a PDF file (for example the parser could be used in a PDF viewer). Besides parsing PoDoFo includes also very simple classes to create your own PDF files. All classes are documented so it is easy to start writing your own application using PoDoFo.

This package contains tools for working with PDF files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpodofo-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install libpodofo-utils.

sudo apt -y install libpodofo-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libpodofo-utils

Summary

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