dar command not found

Introduction

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

dar: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dar: command not found

Solutions to dar: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dar is provided by dar package.

dar is:

Full featured archiver with support for differential backups, slices, compression, ATTR/ACL support. DAR also supports Pipes for remote operations, including with ssh.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dar

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

You can also use apt command to install dar.

sudo apt -y install dar

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

sudo aptitude install dar

Summary

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