engrampa command not found

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

Introduction

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

engrampa: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: engrampa: command not found

Solutions to engrampa: command not found

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

In Ubuntu engrampa is provided by engrampa package.

engrampa is:

Engrampa is an archive manager for the MATE environment. It allows you to:

  • Create and modify archives.
  • View the content of an archive.
  • View a file contained in an archive.
  • Extract files from the archive.

Engrampa supports the following formats:

  • Tar (.tar) archives, including those compressed with gzip (.tar.gz, .tgz), bzip (.tar.bz, .tbz), bzip2 (.tar.bz2, .tbz2), compress (.tar.Z, .taz), lzip (.tar.lz, .tlz), lzop (.tar.lzo, .tzo), lzma (.tar.lzma) and xz (.tar.xz)
  • Zip archives (.zip)
  • Jar archives (.jar, .ear, .war)
  • 7z archives (.7z)
  • iso9660 CD images (.iso)
  • Lha archives (.lzh)
  • Single files compressed with gzip (.gz), bzip (.bz), bzip2 (.bz2), compress (.Z), lzip (.lz), lzop (.lzo), lzma (.lzma) and xz (.xz)

Engrampa doesn’t perform archive operations by itself, but relies on standard tools for this.

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

sudo apt-get -y install engrampa

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

You can also use apt command to install engrampa.

sudo apt -y install engrampa

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

sudo aptitude install engrampa

Summary

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