sfnt2woff-zopfli command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix sfnt2woff-zopfli command not found error message

Introduction

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

sfnt2woff-zopfli: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sfnt2woff-zopfli: command not found

Solutions to sfnt2woff-zopfli: command not found

How To Fix sfnt2woff-zopfli: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sfnt2woff-zopfli is provided by sfnt2woff-zopfli package.

sfnt2woff-zopfli is:

This is a modified version of the sfnt2woff utility that uses Zopfli as a compression algorithm instead of zlib. This results in compression gains of, on average, 5-8% compared to regular WOFF files. Zopfli generates compressed output that is compatible with regular zlib compression so the resulting WOFF files can be used everywhere.

This package provides two tools:

sfnt2woff-zopfli: convert OpenType fonts to WOFF
woff2sfnt-zopfli: convert WOFF fonts to OpenType

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

sudo apt-get -y install sfnt2woff-zopfli

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

You can also use apt command to install sfnt2woff-zopfli.

sudo apt -y install sfnt2woff-zopfli

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

sudo aptitude install sfnt2woff-zopfli

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix sfnt2woff-zopfli command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.