pdlzip command not found

Introduction

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

pdlzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pdlzip: command not found

Solutions to pdlzip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pdlzip is provided by pdlzip package.

pdlzip is:

Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2.

Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses better than bzip2, which makes it well suited for software distribution and data archiving.

This package contains a simpler implementation, put into the public domain.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pdlzip

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

You can also use apt command to install pdlzip.

sudo apt -y install pdlzip

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

sudo aptitude install pdlzip

Summary

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