dumpexfat command not found

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

Introduction

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

dumpexfat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dumpexfat: command not found

Solutions to dumpexfat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dumpexfat is provided by exfat-utils package.

exfat-utils is:

Utilities to manage extended file allocation table filesystem. This package provides tools to create, check, dump and label the filesystem. It contains

dumpexfat to dump properties of the filesystem
exfatfsck / fsck.exfat to report errors found on a exFAT filesystem
exfatlabel to label a exFAT filesystem
mkexfatfs / mkfs.exfat to create a exFAT filesystem. The tools included in this package are the exfat-utils developed as an independent implementation by the exfat-fuse author, the tools build by Samsung engineers for the Linux exFAT implementation are available in the exfatprogs package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install exfat-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install exfat-utils.

sudo apt -y install exfat-utils

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

sudo aptitude install exfat-utils

Summary

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