dar_static command not found

Introduction

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

dar_static: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dar_static: command not found

Solutions to dar_static: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dar_static is provided by dar-static package.

dar-static is:

Full featured archiver with support for differential backups, slices, compression, ATTR/ACL support. DAR also supports Pipes for remote operations, including with ssh.

This package contains the static binary, dar_static.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dar-static

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

You can also use apt command to install dar-static.

sudo apt -y install dar-static

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

sudo aptitude install dar-static

Summary

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