uptftopl command not found

Introduction

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

uptftopl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: uptftopl: command not found

Solutions to uptftopl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu uptftopl is provided by texlive-binaries package.

texlive-binaries is:

This package contains all the binaries of TeX Live packages.

Note that this package alone has hardly any functionality. Rather, choose the texlive-* packages you want to use, e.g. texlive-latex-recommended or context

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

sudo apt-get -y install texlive-binaries

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

You can also use apt command to install texlive-binaries.

sudo apt -y install texlive-binaries

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

sudo aptitude install texlive-binaries

Summary

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