containers-storage command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix containers-storage command not found error message

Introduction

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

containers-storage: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: containers-storage: command not found

Solutions to containers-storage: command not found

How To Fix containers-storage: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu containers-storage is provided by containers-storage package.

containers-storage is:

storage is a Go library which aims to provide methods for storing filesystem layers, container images, and containers. A containers-storage CLI wrapper is also included for manual and scripting use.

This package contains the CLI tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install containers-storage

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

You can also use apt command to install containers-storage.

sudo apt -y install containers-storage

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

sudo aptitude install containers-storage

Summary

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