cabextract command not found

Introduction

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

cabextract: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cabextract: command not found

Solutions to cabextract: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cabextract is provided by cabextract package.

cabextract is:

Cabextract is a program which unpacks cabinet (.cab) files, which are a form of archive Microsoft uses to distribute their software and things like Windows Font Packs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cabextract

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

You can also use apt command to install cabextract.

sudo apt -y install cabextract

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

sudo aptitude install cabextract

Summary

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