encfsctl command not found

Introduction

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

encfsctl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: encfsctl: command not found

Solutions to encfsctl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu encfsctl is provided by encfs package.

encfs is:

EncFS integrates file system encryption into the Unix(TM) file system. Encrypted data is stored within the native file system, thus no fixed-size loopback image is required.

EncFS uses the FUSE kernel driver and library as a backend.

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

sudo apt-get -y install encfs

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

You can also use apt command to install encfs.

sudo apt -y install encfs

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

sudo aptitude install encfs

Summary

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