radeontool command not found

Introduction

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

radeontool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: radeontool: command not found

Solutions to radeontool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu radeontool is provided by radeontool package.

radeontool is:

Radeontool is a small utility to control ATI Radeon based laptops’ backlight and external output functions. It is also able to dump the contents of registers for debugging purposes.

WARNING: Radeontool code has not been completely audited and may contain bugs that could damage your hardware. Use at your own risk.

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

sudo apt-get -y install radeontool

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

You can also use apt command to install radeontool.

sudo apt -y install radeontool

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

sudo aptitude install radeontool

Summary

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