deletall command not found

Introduction

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

deletall: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: deletall: command not found

Solutions to deletall: command not found

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

In Ubuntu deletall is provided by libxbase64-bin package.

libxbase64-bin is:

Xbase (formerly known as xdb, also formerly known as xBase) is a collection of specifiations, programs, utilities and a C++ class library for manipulating Xbase type datafiles and indices.

Xbase is useful for accessing data in legacy dBase 3 and 4 database files as well as a general light-weight database engine. It includes support for DBF (dBase version 3 and 4) data files, NDX and NTX indexes, and DBT (dBase version 3 and 4). It supports file and record locking under *nix OS’s.

This package contains the utility files for Xbase distributed with Xbase.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libxbase64-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libxbase64-bin.

sudo apt -y install libxbase64-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libxbase64-bin

Summary

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