cdrestore command not found

Introduction

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

cdrestore: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cdrestore: command not found

Solutions to cdrestore: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cdrestore is provided by cdbackup package.

cdbackup is:

cdbackup and cdrestore are a pair of utilities designed to facilitate streaming backup to and from CD-R(W) disks. Specifically, they were designed to work with dump/restore, but tar/cpio/whatever you want should work, so long as it writes to stdout for backups and reads from stdin for restores.

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

sudo apt-get -y install cdbackup

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

You can also use apt command to install cdbackup.

sudo apt -y install cdbackup

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

sudo aptitude install cdbackup

Summary

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