testlibraw command not found

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

Introduction

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

testlibraw: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: testlibraw: command not found

Solutions to testlibraw: command not found

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

In Ubuntu testlibraw is provided by libraw1394-tools package.

libraw1394-tools is:

libraw1394 is the only supported interface to the kernel side raw1394 of the Linux IEEE-1394 subsystem, which provides direct access to the connected 1394 buses to user space. Through libraw1394/raw1394, applications can directly send to and receive from other nodes without requiring a kernel driver for the protocol in question.

This package contains various utilities for that use libraw1394, including the testlibraw program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libraw1394-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libraw1394-tools.

sudo apt -y install libraw1394-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libraw1394-tools

Summary

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