squashfuse command not found

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

Introduction

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

squashfuse: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: squashfuse: command not found

Solutions to squashfuse: command not found

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

In Ubuntu squashfuse is provided by squashfuse package.

squashfuse is:

This lets you mount SquashFS archives in user-space. It supports almost all features of the SquashFS format, yet is still fast and memory-efficient.

SquashFS is an efficiently compressed, read-only storage format. Support for it has been built into the Linux kernel since 2009. It is very common on Live CDs and embedded Linux distributions.

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

sudo apt-get -y install squashfuse

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

You can also use apt command to install squashfuse.

sudo apt -y install squashfuse

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

sudo aptitude install squashfuse

Summary

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