fdupes command not found

Introduction

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

fdupes: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fdupes: command not found

Solutions to fdupes: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fdupes is provided by fdupes package.

fdupes is:

FDupes uses md5sums and then a byte by byte comparison to find duplicate files within a set of directories. It has several useful options including recursion.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fdupes

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

You can also use apt command to install fdupes.

sudo apt -y install fdupes

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

sudo aptitude install fdupes

Summary

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