dbf_dump command not found

Introduction

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

dbf_dump: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dbf_dump: command not found

Solutions to dbf_dump: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dbf_dump is provided by libdbd-xbase-perl package.

libdbd-xbase-perl is:

DBD::XBase allows creation, access and modification of .dbf (dBase, Clipper, Fox* style) database files. It is capable of handling memo files, but indexes only in a somewhat limited way. It has two interfaces: one using SQL commands (through DBI) ad the other with a simple OO interface.

You can use the included dbf_dump program to dump the content of a .dbf file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdbd-xbase-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libdbd-xbase-perl.

sudo apt -y install libdbd-xbase-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libdbd-xbase-perl

Summary

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