ia command not found

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

Introduction

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

ia: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ia: command not found

In Ubuntu ia is provided by internetarchive package.

internetarchive is:

Command-line tool (ia) for searching, downloading and uploading content to the Internet Archive.

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

sudo apt-get -y install internetarchive

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

You can also use apt command to install internetarchive.

sudo apt -y install internetarchive

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

sudo aptitude install internetarchive

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