tar-restore command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix tar-restore command not found error message

Introduction

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

tar-restore: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tar-restore: command not found

In Ubuntu tar-restore is provided by tar-scripts package.

tar-scripts is:

This package provides the backup, restore, backup.sh, and dump-remind scripts that are mentioned in the tar documentation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tar-scripts

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

You can also use apt command to install tar-scripts.

sudo apt -y install tar-scripts

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

sudo aptitude install tar-scripts

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