fq command not found

Introduction

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

fq: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fq: command not found

Solutions to fq: command not found

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

In Ubuntu fq is provided by fq package.

fq is:

Tool, language and decoders for inspecting binary data.

In most cases fq works the same way as jq but instead of reading JSON it reads binary data. The result is a JSON compatible structures where each value has a bit range, symbolic interpretations and know how to be presented in a useful way.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fq

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

You can also use apt command to install fq.

sudo apt -y install fq

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

sudo aptitude install fq

Summary

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