pxfw command not found

Introduction

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

pxfw: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pxfw: command not found

Solutions to pxfw: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pxfw is provided by pxfw package.

pxfw is:

QPxTool gives you access to all available Quality Checks (Q-Checks) on written and blank media, that are available for your drive. This will help you to find the right media and the optimized writing speed for your hardware, which will increase the chance for a long data lifetime.

This package contains pxfw, a firmware flash program for Plextor optical drives.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pxfw

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

You can also use apt command to install pxfw.

sudo apt -y install pxfw

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

sudo aptitude install pxfw

Summary

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