diffstat command not found

Introduction

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

diffstat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: diffstat: command not found

Solutions to diffstat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu diffstat is provided by diffstat package.

diffstat is:

This program is a simple filter that reads the output of the ‘diff’ program, and produces a histogram of the total number of lines that were changed. It is useful for scanning a patch file to see which files were changed.

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

sudo apt-get -y install diffstat

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

You can also use apt command to install diffstat.

sudo apt -y install diffstat

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

sudo aptitude install diffstat

Summary

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