annex-to-annex-reinject command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix annex-to-annex-reinject command not found error message

Introduction

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

annex-to-annex-reinject: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: annex-to-annex-reinject: command not found

In Ubuntu annex-to-annex-reinject is provided by libgit-annex-perl package.

libgit-annex-perl is:

Perl interface to git-annex repositories, and some scripts which make use of this interface. Requires git-annex installed to be useful.

Git::Annex – class representing a git-annex repository

annex-to-annex – use hardlinks to migrate files between git annex repos

annex-review-unused – interactively process git annex unused output

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgit-annex-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libgit-annex-perl.

sudo apt -y install libgit-annex-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libgit-annex-perl

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