libdeflate-gunzip command not found

Introduction

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

libdeflate-gunzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: libdeflate-gunzip: command not found

Solutions to libdeflate-gunzip: command not found

How To Fix libdeflate-gunzip: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu libdeflate-gunzip is provided by libdeflate-tools package.

libdeflate-tools is:

The supported formats are:

• DEFLATE (raw)
• zlib (a.k.a. DEFLATE with a zlib wrapper)
• gzip (a.k.a. DEFLATE with a gzip wrapper)

libdeflate is heavily optimized. It is significantly faster than the zlib library, both for compression and decompression, and especially on x86 processors. In addition, libdeflate provides optional high compression modes that provide a better compression ratio than the zlib’s “level 9”.

This package provides the sample tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libdeflate-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libdeflate-tools.

sudo apt -y install libdeflate-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libdeflate-tools

Summary

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