syslinux command not found

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

Introduction

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

syslinux: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: syslinux: command not found

Solutions to syslinux: command not found

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

In Ubuntu syslinux is provided by syslinux package.

syslinux is:

syslinux is a suite of bootloaders, currently supporting DOS FAT and NTFS filesystems (SYSLINUX), Linux ext2/ext3/ext4, btrfs, and xfs filesystems (EXTLINUX), PXE network boots (PXELINUX), or ISO 9660 CD-ROMs (ISOLINUX).

This package contains the bootloader for DOS FAT and NTFS filesystems (SYSLINUX).

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

sudo apt-get -y install syslinux

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

You can also use apt command to install syslinux.

sudo apt -y install syslinux

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

sudo aptitude install syslinux

Summary

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