lsyncd command not found

Introduction

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

lsyncd: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lsyncd: command not found

Solutions to lsyncd: command not found

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

In Ubuntu lsyncd is provided by lsyncd package.

lsyncd is:

Lsyncd (Live syncing mirror daemon) uses rsync to synchronize local directories with a remote machine running rsyncd. Lsyncd watches multiple directories trees through inotify. The first step after adding the watches is to rsync all directories with the remote host, and then sync single file by collecting the inotify events. So lsyncd is a light-weight live mirror solution that should be easy to install and use while blending well with your system.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lsyncd

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

You can also use apt command to install lsyncd.

sudo apt -y install lsyncd

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

sudo aptitude install lsyncd

Summary

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