apfsck command not found

Introduction

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

apfsck: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: apfsck: command not found

Solutions to apfsck: command not found

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

In Ubuntu apfsck is provided by apfsprogs package.

apfsprogs is:

This is a suite of userland software to work with the Apple File System on Linux. For now only mkfs and fsck tools are available, both functional but lacking in features. Compatibility with the Apple implementations has barely been tested; please exercise caution.

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

sudo apt-get -y install apfsprogs

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

You can also use apt command to install apfsprogs.

sudo apt -y install apfsprogs

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

sudo aptitude install apfsprogs

Summary

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