cachefilesd command not found

Introduction

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

cachefilesd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cachefilesd: command not found

Solutions to cachefilesd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cachefilesd is provided by cachefilesd package.

cachefilesd is:

FSCache is a generic caching manager in the Linux kernel which can be used by network and other filesystems to cache data locally.

CacheFiles is an FSCache backend that’s meant to use as a cache a directory on an already mounted filesystem of a local type (such as Ext3). This package installs the userspace support required by the cachefiles backend.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cachefilesd

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

You can also use apt command to install cachefilesd.

sudo apt -y install cachefilesd

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

sudo aptitude install cachefilesd

Summary

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