filetraq command not found

Introduction

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

filetraq: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: filetraq: command not found

Solutions to filetraq: command not found

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

In Ubuntu filetraq is provided by filetraq package.

filetraq is:

FileTraq is a shell script that reads a list of files to watch, runs diff against each file and its backup, and reports any discrepancies, along with keeping a dated backup of the original. It’s designed to be run as a cron job.

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

sudo apt-get -y install filetraq

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

You can also use apt command to install filetraq.

sudo apt -y install filetraq

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

sudo aptitude install filetraq

Summary

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