wbmp2xbm command not found

Introduction

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

wbmp2xbm: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wbmp2xbm: command not found

Solutions to wbmp2xbm: command not found

How To Fix wbmp2xbm: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wbmp2xbm is provided by wapua package.

wapua is:

wApua is a web browser for browsing WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) pages written in the Wireless Markup Language (WML; versions 1.1 and 1.2 are supported). Its main purpose is to test or surf WAP pages locally or over HTTP and HTTPS without connecting with a WAP capable mobile phone, which may be expensive or impossible, i.e. in case of WAP pages on the local filesystem.

wApua is written in Perl using libwww-perl and Perl/Tk.

Included in the package is the command line front-end wbmp2xbm to wApua’s internal converter for decoding WAP Wireless Bitmaps (WBMP) into X Bitmaps (XBM).

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

sudo apt-get -y install wapua

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

You can also use apt command to install wapua.

sudo apt -y install wapua

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

sudo aptitude install wapua

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix wbmp2xbm command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.