chacl command not found

Introduction

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

chacl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: chacl: command not found

Solutions to chacl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu chacl is provided by acl package.

acl is:

This package contains the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists. It also contains the chacl IRIX compatible utility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install acl

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

You can also use apt command to install acl.

sudo apt -y install acl

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

sudo aptitude install acl

Summary

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