genfstab command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix genfstab command not found error message

Introduction

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

genfstab: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: genfstab: command not found

Solutions to genfstab: command not found

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

In Ubuntu genfstab is provided by arch-install-scripts package.

arch-install-scripts is:

arch-install-scripts provides a small suite of scripts originally meant to automate some menial tasks during the installation of an Arch system. This package provides the scripts that can be useful for debootstrapping a Debian-based system.

This package contains:

genfstab: Automatically generate an fstab file
arch-chroot: Set up bind mounts and chroot into the target system.

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

sudo apt-get -y install arch-install-scripts

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

You can also use apt command to install arch-install-scripts.

sudo apt -y install arch-install-scripts

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

sudo aptitude install arch-install-scripts

Summary

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