curlftpfs command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix curlftpfs command not found error message

Introduction

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

curlftpfs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: curlftpfs: command not found

Solutions to curlftpfs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu curlftpfs is provided by curlftpfs package.

curlftpfs is:

CurlFtpFS is a tool to mount FTP hosts as local directories. It connects to a FTP server and maps its directory structure to the local filesystem.

Based on FUSE (filesystem in userspace) and the cURL library, CurlFtpFS has some features that distinguish it over other FTP filesystems:

  • support for SSLv3 and TLSv1
  • connecting through tunneling HTTP proxies
  • automatic reconnection if the server times out
  • conversion of absolute symlinks to point back into the FTP filesystem

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

sudo apt-get -y install curlftpfs

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

You can also use apt command to install curlftpfs.

sudo apt -y install curlftpfs

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

sudo aptitude install curlftpfs

Summary

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