unzip command not found

Introduction

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

unzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: unzip: command not found

Solutions to unzip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu unzip is provided by unzip package.

unzip is:

InfoZIP’s unzip program. With the exception of multi-volume archives (ie, .ZIP files that are split across several disks using PKZIP’s /& option), this can handle any file produced either by PKZIP, or the corresponding InfoZIP zip program.

This version supports encryption.

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

sudo apt-get -y install unzip

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

You can also use apt command to install unzip.

sudo apt -y install unzip

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

sudo aptitude install unzip

Summary

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