guestfsd command not found

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

Introduction

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

guestfsd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: guestfsd: command not found

Solutions to guestfsd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu guestfsd is provided by guestfsd package.

guestfsd is:

The libguestfs library allows accessing and modifying guest disk images.

This package contains a standalone version the back-end daemon that carries out file system access on behalf of libguestfs applications. It is not needed for regular operation.

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

sudo apt-get -y install guestfsd

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

You can also use apt command to install guestfsd.

sudo apt -y install guestfsd

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

sudo aptitude install guestfsd

Summary

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