ploop-balloon command not found

Introduction

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

ploop-balloon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ploop-balloon: command not found

Solutions to ploop-balloon: command not found

How To Fix ploop-balloon: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ploop-balloon is provided by ploop package.

ploop is:

Ploop is a disk loopback block device, not unlike loop but with many features like dynamic resize, snapshots, backups etc. The main idea is to put container filesystem in a file.

This package contains tools to work with ploop devices and images.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ploop

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

You can also use apt command to install ploop.

sudo apt -y install ploop

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

sudo aptitude install ploop

Summary

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