sfind command not found

Introduction

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

sfind: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sfind: command not found

Solutions to sfind: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sfind is provided by shapetools package.

shapetools is:

ShapeTools is a collection of programs to support software configuration management in an UNIX environment. It consists of a set of version and attribute control commands, and a configuration interpreter and build tool (“shape”). The toolkit is integrated on top of the Attributed File System (AtFS).

ShapeTools is designed to live meaningfully together with any other UNIX tool operating on regular files. This distribution also contains a prototype for a comprehensive change control and release management system designed to manage the evolution of system releases in multi programmer software development efforts.

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

sudo apt-get -y install shapetools

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

You can also use apt command to install shapetools.

sudo apt -y install shapetools

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

sudo aptitude install shapetools

Summary

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