git-annex-remote-rclone command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix git-annex-remote-rclone command not found error message

Introduction

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

git-annex-remote-rclone: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: git-annex-remote-rclone: command not found

Solutions to git-annex-remote-rclone: command not found

How To Fix git-annex-remote-rclone: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu git-annex-remote-rclone is provided by git-annex-remote-rclone package.

git-annex-remote-rclone is:

This is a wrapper around rclone to make any destination supported by rclone usable with git-annex.

Cloud storage providers supported by rclone currently include:

  • Google Drive
  • Amazon S3
  • Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files / Memset Memstore
  • Dropbox
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Microsoft One Drive
  • Hubic
  • Backblaze B2
  • Yandex Disk

Note: although Amazon Cloud Drive support is implemented, it is broken ATM see https://github.com/DanielDent/git-annex-remote-rclone/issues/22 .

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

sudo apt-get -y install git-annex-remote-rclone

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

You can also use apt command to install git-annex-remote-rclone.

sudo apt -y install git-annex-remote-rclone

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

sudo aptitude install git-annex-remote-rclone

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix git-annex-remote-rclone command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.