minizip command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix minizip command not found error message

Introduction

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

minizip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: minizip: command not found

In Ubuntu minizip is provided by minizip package.

minizip is:

minizip is a minimalistic library that supports compressing, extracting, viewing, and manipulating zip files.

This package includes the minizip and miniunzip tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install minizip

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

You can also use apt command to install minizip.

sudo apt -y install minizip

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

sudo aptitude install minizip

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