hdup command not found

Introduction

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

hdup: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: hdup: command not found

Solutions to hdup: command not found

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

In Ubuntu hdup is provided by hdup package.

hdup is:

hdup is a backup utility with the following characteristics:

remote backups (move the backup to another machine); encrypted backups; no obscure format for the backups; compression (gzip/bzip or none); simple to use.

The source also includes two manpages, one for hdup itself and the other for the configuration file. It should be fairly obvious how to use hdup.

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

sudo apt-get -y install hdup

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

You can also use apt command to install hdup.

sudo apt -y install hdup

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

sudo aptitude install hdup

Summary

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