ppdfilt command not found

Introduction

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

ppdfilt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ppdfilt: command not found

Solutions to ppdfilt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ppdfilt is provided by ppdfilt package.

ppdfilt is:

ppdfilt is a filter program designed to be used within a filter script or from the command line tool to insert printer specific commands to a PostScript print job. This can be used to tell the printer to duplex or staple the print job, or tell it what paper tray to draw paper from. In the GNULpr printing environment, users do not call ppdfilt directly, but its features are accessed by using ’lpr’ or ‘gpr’ (see)

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

sudo apt-get -y install ppdfilt

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

You can also use apt command to install ppdfilt.

sudo apt -y install ppdfilt

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

sudo aptitude install ppdfilt

Summary

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