dave command not found

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

Introduction

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

dave: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dave: command not found

Solutions to dave: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dave is provided by libhttp-dav-perl package.

libhttp-dav-perl is:

HTTP::DAV provides client-side access to a DAV server. DAV is a protocol for remote web-site authoring and management. Now you can LOCK, DELETE and PUT files and much more on a DAV-enabled webserver.

The PerlDAV library consists of:

HTTP::DAV - an object-oriented Web-DAV client API.
dave - the DAV Explorer, an end-user Unix console program for interacting with WebDAV servers. dave looks and feels like a standard Unix ftp program.

Learn more about WebDAV at http://www.webdav.org/

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

sudo apt-get -y install libhttp-dav-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libhttp-dav-perl.

sudo apt -y install libhttp-dav-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libhttp-dav-perl

Summary

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