wimlib-imagex command not found

Introduction

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

wimlib-imagex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wimlib-imagex: command not found

Solutions to wimlib-imagex: command not found

How To Fix wimlib-imagex: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu wimlib-imagex is provided by wimtools package.

wimtools is:

WIM is an archive format designed primarily for archiving Windows filesystems. It features single-instancing and LZ77-based compression, and is used by Microsoft to distribute and deploy Windows Vista and later.

This package contains a free implementation of the ImageX utility that is used to create WIM files on Windows.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wimtools

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

You can also use apt command to install wimtools.

sudo apt -y install wimtools

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

sudo aptitude install wimtools

Summary

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