qcowinfo command not found

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

Introduction

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

qcowinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qcowinfo: command not found

In Ubuntu qcowinfo is provided by libqcow-utils package.

libqcow-utils is:

libqcow is a library to access the QEMU Copy-On-Write (QCOW) image format.

This package contains tools to access data stored in QCOW files: qcowinfo, qcowmount.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libqcow-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install libqcow-utils.

sudo apt -y install libqcow-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libqcow-utils

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