freezer-agent command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix freezer-agent command not found error message

Introduction

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

freezer-agent: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: freezer-agent: command not found

Solutions to freezer-agent: command not found

How To Fix freezer-agent: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu freezer-agent is provided by python3-freezer package.

python3-freezer is:

Freezer is a distributed backup restore and disaster recovery as a service platform. It is designed to be multi OS (Linux, Windows, OSX, *BSD), focused on providing efficiency and flexibility for block based backups, file based incremental backups, point-in-time actions, jobs synchronization (i.e. backup synchronization over multiple nodes) and many other features. It is aimed at being useful for all environments, including large ephemeral Clouds.

This package contains the Python libraries.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-freezer

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-freezer.

sudo apt -y install python3-freezer

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

sudo aptitude install python3-freezer

Summary

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