tiffgt command not found

Introduction

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

tiffgt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tiffgt: command not found

Solutions to tiffgt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tiffgt is provided by libtiff-opengl package.

libtiff-opengl is:

libtiff is a library providing support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data. This package contains libtiff tools that depend upon opengl. It complements the libtiff-tools package, which contains the libtiff tools that don’t depend upon opengl.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libtiff-opengl

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

You can also use apt command to install libtiff-opengl.

sudo apt -y install libtiff-opengl

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

sudo aptitude install libtiff-opengl

Summary

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