extundelete command not found

Introduction

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

extundelete: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: extundelete: command not found

Solutions to extundelete: command not found

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

In Ubuntu extundelete is provided by extundelete package.

extundelete is:

extundelete uses the information stored in the partition’s journal to attempt to recover a file that has been deleted. There is no guarantee that any particular file will be able to be undeleted.

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

sudo apt-get -y install extundelete

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

You can also use apt command to install extundelete.

sudo apt -y install extundelete

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

sudo aptitude install extundelete

Summary

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