dact command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix dact command not found error message

Introduction

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

dact: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dact: command not found

In Ubuntu dact is provided by dact package.

dact is:

DACT compresses each block within the file with all its known algorithms and uses the block with the best compression ratio.

DACT can encrypt the compressed data with one of two algorithms.

Compression time for DACT is slow as each block is compressed multiple times.

Current supported compression algorithms include RLE, Delta, Text, Zlib, Modified Zlib, Bzip2 and Seminibble Encoding.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dact

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

You can also use apt command to install dact.

sudo apt -y install dact

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

sudo aptitude install dact

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