igzip command not found

Introduction

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

igzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: igzip: command not found

Solutions to igzip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu igzip is provided by isal package.

isal is:

Collection of low-level functions used in storage applications. Contains fast erasure codes that implement a general Reed-Solomon type encoding for blocks of data that helps protect against erasure of whole blocks. The general ISA-L library contains an expanded set of functions used for data protection, hashing, encryption, etc.

This package contains CLI tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install isal

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

You can also use apt command to install isal.

sudo apt -y install isal

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

sudo aptitude install isal

Summary

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