ark command not found

Introduction

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

ark: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ark: command not found

Solutions to ark: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ark is provided by ark package.

ark is:

Ark manages various archive formats, including tar, gzip, bzip2, rar and zip, as well as CD-ROM images. Ark can be used to browse, extract, create, and modify archives.

This package is part of the KDE SC utilities module.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ark

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

You can also use apt command to install ark.

sudo apt -y install ark

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

sudo aptitude install ark

Summary

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