zipalign command not found

Introduction

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

zipalign: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: zipalign: command not found

Solutions to zipalign: command not found

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

In Ubuntu zipalign is provided by zipalign package.

zipalign is:

zipalign is an archive alignment tool that provides important optimization to Android application (.apk) files. The purpose is to ensure that all uncompressed data starts with a particular alignment relative to the start of the file.

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

sudo apt-get -y install zipalign

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

You can also use apt command to install zipalign.

sudo apt -y install zipalign

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

sudo aptitude install zipalign

Summary

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