fosread command not found

Introduction

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

fosread: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fosread: command not found

Solutions to fosread: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fosread is provided by fosfat package.

fosfat is:

Fosfat is a C library for providing read-only access to a Smaky formatted disk. Currently, only a tool and a FUSE extension that use this library can be used for reading a directory and copying a file.

The Smaky is a line of mostly 8-bit personal computers and accompanying operating system developed at the EPFL (École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), in Switzerland, from 1974.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fosfat

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

You can also use apt command to install fosfat.

sudo apt -y install fosfat

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

sudo aptitude install fosfat

Summary

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