mapdevfs command not found

Introduction

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

mapdevfs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mapdevfs: command not found

Solutions to mapdevfs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mapdevfs is provided by ubiquity package.

ubiquity is:

This is a simple live CD installer designed to integrate well with Debian- and Ubuntu-based systems, and to reuse code from d-i for ease of maintenance.

Installing this package on a normal system is unlikely to be useful.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ubiquity

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

You can also use apt command to install ubiquity.

sudo apt -y install ubiquity

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

sudo aptitude install ubiquity

Summary

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