avfs-config command not found

Introduction

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

avfs-config: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: avfs-config: command not found

Solutions to avfs-config: command not found

How To Fix avfs-config: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu avfs-config is provided by avfs package.

avfs is:

This FUSE-base VFS (Virtual FileSystem) enables all programs to look inside archived or compressed files, or access remote files without recompiling the programs or changing the kernel.

At the moment it supports floppies, tar and gzip files, zip, bzip2, ar and rar files, ftp sessions, http, webdav, rsh/rcp, ssh/scp. Quite a few other handlers are implemented with the Midnight Commander’s external FS.

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

sudo apt-get -y install avfs

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

You can also use apt command to install avfs.

sudo apt -y install avfs

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

sudo aptitude install avfs

Summary

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