psautohint command not found

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

Introduction

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

psautohint: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: psautohint: command not found

In Ubuntu psautohint is provided by psautohint package.

psautohint is:

psautohint is the font autohinter from Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType (AFDKO).

This package provides the executable program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install psautohint

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

You can also use apt command to install psautohint.

sudo apt -y install psautohint

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

sudo aptitude install psautohint

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