archivemount command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix archivemount command not found error message

Introduction

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

archivemount: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: archivemount: command not found

Solutions to archivemount: command not found

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

In Ubuntu archivemount is provided by archivemount package.

archivemount is:

archivemount is a FUSE based file system for Unix variants, including Linux. Its purpose is to mount archives to a mount point where it can be read from or written to as with any other file system. This makes accessing the contents of the archive, which maybe compressed, transparent to other programs, without decompressing them. The archive formats that archivemount supports are:

  • old-style tar archives, .
  • most variants of the POSIX ‘ustar’ format, .
  • the POSIX ‘pax interchange’ format, .
  • GNU-format tar archives, .
  • most common cpio archive formats, .
  • ISO9660 CD images (with or without RockRidge extensions), .
  • Zip archives. .
  • two different variants of shar archives. . archivemount is FUSE (Filesystem in USErspace).

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

sudo apt-get -y install archivemount

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

You can also use apt command to install archivemount.

sudo apt -y install archivemount

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

sudo aptitude install archivemount

Summary

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