fis command not found

Introduction

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

fis: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fis: command not found

Solutions to fis: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fis is provided by redboot-tools package.

redboot-tools is:

fis is a tool to manipulate entries in a RedBoot FIS directory, similar to the fis command in the RedBoot interactive shell.

fconfig is a tool to manipulate RedBoot configuration data, similar to the fconfig command in the RedBoot interactive shell.

These utilities help create RedBoot data from scratch or querying/updating the data of an installed system. This can be used to generate images with RedBoot data or to change the boot data of devices.

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

sudo apt-get -y install redboot-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install redboot-tools.

sudo apt -y install redboot-tools

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

sudo aptitude install redboot-tools

Summary

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