fuse-overlayfs command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix fuse-overlayfs command not found error message

Introduction

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

fuse-overlayfs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fuse-overlayfs: command not found

In Ubuntu fuse-overlayfs is provided by fuse-overlayfs package.

fuse-overlayfs is:

This package provides an overlayfs FUSE implementation so that it can be used since Linux 4.18 by unprivileged users in an user namespace.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fuse-overlayfs

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

You can also use apt command to install fuse-overlayfs.

sudo apt -y install fuse-overlayfs

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

sudo aptitude install fuse-overlayfs

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