dtrx command not found

Introduction

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

dtrx: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dtrx: command not found

Solutions to dtrx: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dtrx is provided by dtrx package.

dtrx is:

dtrx is basically the same as tar -zxf or tar -xjf except you don’t have to remember the flags for each file. But there’s more to it than that. You know those really annoying files that don’t put everything in a dedicated directory, and have the permissions all wrong? dtrx takes care of all those problems for you, too. dtrx is simple and powerful. Just use the same command for all your archive files, and they’ll never frustrate you again.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dtrx

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

You can also use apt command to install dtrx.

sudo apt -y install dtrx

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

sudo aptitude install dtrx

Summary

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