sixel2png command not found

Introduction

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

sixel2png: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sixel2png: command not found

Solutions to sixel2png: command not found

How To Fix sixel2png: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu sixel2png is provided by libsixel-bin package.

libsixel-bin is:

SIXEL is one of image formats for printer and terminal imaging introduced by Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC). Its data scheme is represented as a terminal-friendly escape sequence. So if you want to view a SIXEL image file, all you have to do is “cat” it to your terminal.

The package contains execution binaries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsixel-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libsixel-bin.

sudo apt -y install libsixel-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libsixel-bin

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix sixel2png command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.