dirvish-locate command not found

Introduction

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

dirvish-locate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dirvish-locate: command not found

Solutions to dirvish-locate: command not found

How To Fix dirvish-locate: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dirvish-locate is provided by dirvish package.

dirvish is:

A utility to maintain multiple backups on online storage, each backup is available as a sort of snapshot directory, where common files are shared between the different backup generations. It uses rsync to do the actual copying.

Backups can be made locally or over the network (using ssh).

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

sudo apt-get -y install dirvish

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

You can also use apt command to install dirvish.

sudo apt -y install dirvish

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

sudo aptitude install dirvish

Summary

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