poster command not found

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

Introduction

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

poster: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: poster: command not found

Solutions to poster: command not found

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

In Ubuntu poster is provided by poster package.

poster is:

Poster takes a one-page PostScript file and scales it to a specified size. It can tile the resulting image into multiple smaller pages that can be pasted together to form the big poster. Poster prefers EPS as its input although freer forms of PostScript are also understood.

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

sudo apt-get -y install poster

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

You can also use apt command to install poster.

sudo apt -y install poster

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

sudo aptitude install poster

Summary

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