cldump command not found

Introduction

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

cldump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cldump: command not found

Solutions to cldump: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cldump is provided by cldump package.

cldump is:

The cldump utility allows you to extract the content of a Clarion database; Clarion is a Windows IDE similar to Delphi and others, and has its own (simple) database format.

cldump can export the content of the database to CSV or SQL, plus its own “format” which dumps all the meta data along with the data contained in the database. When using the SQL output, you’ll get a nearly ready-to-go dump of the database that will create the table and the indexes and insert the data into the table.

Note that cldump doesn’t support all the datatypes yet; patches welcome.

You may be interested in the dbview package too, which can dump dBase files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cldump

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

You can also use apt command to install cldump.

sudo apt -y install cldump

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

sudo aptitude install cldump

Summary

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