jdupes command not found
Introduction
When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message
jdupes: command not found
or when using sudo you get the following error message
sudo: jdupes: command not found
Solutions to jdupes: command not found
How To Fix jdupes: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian
In Ubuntu jdupes is provided by jdupes package.
jdupes is:
jdupes is a program based in fdupes. The main goal of jdupes is identify and taking actions upon duplicate files. In comparison with fdupes, jdupes is heavily modified from and improved.
The biggest reason to use jdupes is raw speed. In testing on various data sets, jdupes is over 7 times faster than fdupes-1.51 on average.
Code in jdupes is written with data loss avoidance as the highest priority. If a choice must be made between being aggressive or careful, the careful way is always chosen.
jdupes includes features that are not found in fdupes. Examples of such features include btrfs block-level deduplication and control over which file is kept when a match set is automatically deleted. jdupes is not afraid of dropping features of low value; a prime example is the -1 switch which outputs all matches in a set on one line, a feature which was found to be useless in real-world tests and therefore thrown out.
jdupes can convert duplicate files in hardlinks or relative softlinks. It is useful in several scenarios, as in Debian packaging, to create relative symlinks to lots of duplicate files (it will substitute rdfind + symlinks commands, used to same purpose, when solving lintian duplicate-files).
Packages build for Linux versions have support to btrfs filesystem.
To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.
sudo apt-get -y install jdupes
This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.
You can also use apt command to install jdupes.
sudo apt -y install jdupes
Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.
sudo aptitude install jdupes
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to fix jdupes command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.