lsof command not found

Introduction

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

lsof: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lsof: command not found

Solutions to lsof: command not found

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

In Ubuntu lsof is provided by lsof package.

lsof is:

Lsof is a Unix-specific diagnostic tool. Its name stands for LiSt Open Files, and it does just that. It lists information about any files that are open, by processes currently running on the system.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lsof

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

You can also use apt command to install lsof.

sudo apt -y install lsof

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

sudo aptitude install lsof

Summary

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