git-ftp command not found

Introduction

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

git-ftp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: git-ftp: command not found

Solutions to git-ftp: command not found

How To Fix git-ftp: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu git-ftp is provided by git-ftp package.

git-ftp is:

git-ftp is a shell script for uploading Git tracked files to a FTP server. By default, it uploads only those files which have changed since the last upload. This saves time and bandwidth. It can even work with different branches. See manpage for more options.

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

sudo apt-get -y install git-ftp

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

You can also use apt command to install git-ftp.

sudo apt -y install git-ftp

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

sudo aptitude install git-ftp

Summary

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