ddpt command not found

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

Introduction

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

ddpt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ddpt: command not found

Solutions to ddpt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ddpt is provided by ddpt package.

ddpt is:

Copies files. Is specialized for cases where the source and/or destination is a storage device. Optionally can use a pass-through interface to issue SCSI READ and WRITE commands. Various sparse file and device handling options. Similar to and an extension of the Unix dd command. Also supports two variants of SCSI copy offload: xcopy(LID1) and the disk->disk subset of xcopy(LID4) known as ODX.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ddpt

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

You can also use apt command to install ddpt.

sudo apt -y install ddpt

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

sudo aptitude install ddpt

Summary

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