gzrecover command not found

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

Introduction

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

gzrecover: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gzrecover: command not found

In Ubuntu gzrecover is provided by gzrt package.

gzrt is:

gzrecover will attempt to skip over corrupted data in a gzip archive, thereby allowing the remaining data to be recovered.

Please install cpio to facilitate recovery from damaged gzipped tarballs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gzrt

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

You can also use apt command to install gzrt.

sudo apt -y install gzrt

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

sudo aptitude install gzrt

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