clzip command not found

Introduction

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

clzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clzip: command not found

Solutions to clzip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu clzip is provided by clzip package.

clzip is:

Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses better than bzip2, which makes it well suited for software distribution and data archiving.

Clzip is a C language version of lzip using the lzip file format; the files produced by clzip are fully compatible with lzip.

Clzip is intended for embedded devices or systems lacking a C++ compiler.

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

sudo apt-get -y install clzip

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

You can also use apt command to install clzip.

sudo apt -y install clzip

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

sudo aptitude install clzip

Summary

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