sfftobmp command not found

Introduction

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

sfftobmp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sfftobmp: command not found

Solutions to sfftobmp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sfftobmp is provided by sfftobmp package.

sfftobmp is:

Tool to convert “Structured Fax Files” into Windows bitmaps (BMP), Portable Bitmaps (PBM), JPEG Pictures (JPG) and single or multi-page TIFF Images.

SFF means ‘Structured Fax File’, intended by the CAPI interface to be used to save incoming faxes. Within GNU/Linux, cards such as the AVM-B1 create such files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install sfftobmp

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

You can also use apt command to install sfftobmp.

sudo apt -y install sfftobmp

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

sudo aptitude install sfftobmp

Summary

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