munpack command not found

Introduction

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

munpack: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: munpack: command not found

Solutions to munpack: command not found

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

In Ubuntu munpack is provided by mpack package.

mpack is:

Mpack and munpack are utilities for encoding and decoding (respectively) binary files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) format mail messages. For compatibility with older forms of transferring binary files, the munpack program can also decode messages in split-uuencoded format.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mpack

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

You can also use apt command to install mpack.

sudo apt -y install mpack

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

sudo aptitude install mpack

Summary

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