lunzip command not found

Introduction

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

lunzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lunzip: command not found

Solutions to lunzip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu lunzip is provided by lunzip package.

lunzip is:

Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of gzip or bzip2.

This package contains the decompressor.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lunzip

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

You can also use apt command to install lunzip.

sudo apt -y install lunzip

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

sudo aptitude install lunzip

Summary

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