vshadowinfo command not found

Introduction

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

vshadowinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vshadowinfo: command not found

Solutions to vshadowinfo: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vshadowinfo is provided by libvshadow-utils package.

libvshadow-utils is:

libvshadow is a library to access the Volume Shadow Snapshot (VSS) format. The VSS format is used by Windows, as of Vista, to maintain copies of data on a storage media volume.

This package contains tools to access data stored in a Volume Shadow Snapshot: vshadowinfo, vshadowmount.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libvshadow-utils

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

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

sudo apt -y install libvshadow-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libvshadow-utils

Summary

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