read_datamatrix command not found

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

Introduction

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

read_datamatrix: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: read_datamatrix: command not found

Solutions to read_datamatrix: command not found

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

In Ubuntu read_datamatrix is provided by python3-pylibdmtx package.

python3-pylibdmtx is:

Read and write Data Matrix barcodes from Python using the libdmtx library.

Features:

  • Pure Python
  • Works with PIL / Pillow images, OpenCV / numpy ndarrays, and raw bytes
  • Decodes locations of barcodes
  • No dependencies, other than the libdmtx library itself

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pylibdmtx

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-pylibdmtx.

sudo apt -y install python3-pylibdmtx

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pylibdmtx

Summary

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