dirfile2ascii command not found

Introduction

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

dirfile2ascii: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dirfile2ascii: command not found

Solutions to dirfile2ascii: command not found

How To Fix dirfile2ascii: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dirfile2ascii is provided by libgetdata-tools package.

libgetdata-tools is:

The GetData Project is the reference implementation of the Dirfile Standards, a filesystem-based, column-oriented database format for time-ordered binary data. The Dirfile database format is designed to provide a fast, simple format for storing and reading data.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libgetdata-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libgetdata-tools.

sudo apt -y install libgetdata-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libgetdata-tools

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dirfile2ascii command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.