datapacker command not found

Introduction

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

datapacker: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: datapacker: command not found

Solutions to datapacker: command not found

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

In Ubuntu datapacker is provided by datapacker package.

datapacker is:

datapacker is a tool to group files by size. It is designed to group files such that they fill fixed-size containers (called “bins”) using the minimum number of containers. This is useful, for instance, if you want to archive a number of files to CD or DVD, and want to organize them such that you use the minimum possible number of CDs or DVDs.

In many cases, datapacker executes almost instantaneously. Of particular note, the hardlink action can be used to effectively copy data into bins without having to actually copy the data at all.

datapacker is a tool in the traditional Unix style; it can be used in pipes and call other tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install datapacker

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

You can also use apt command to install datapacker.

sudo apt -y install datapacker

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

sudo aptitude install datapacker

Summary

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