lxqt-archiver command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix lxqt-archiver command not found error message

Introduction

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

lxqt-archiver: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lxqt-archiver: command not found

Solutions to lxqt-archiver: command not found

How To Fix lxqt-archiver: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu lxqt-archiver is provided by lxqt-archiver package.

lxqt-archiver is:

LXQt Archiver is an archive manager for the LXQt environment. It allows you to:

  • Create and modify archives.
  • View the content of an archive.
  • View a file contained in an archive.
  • Extract files from the archive.

LXQt Archiver supports the following formats:

  • Tar (.tar) archives, including those compressed with gzip (.tar.gz, .tgz), bzip (.tar.bz, .tbz), bzip2 (.tar.bz2, .tbz2), compress (.tar.Z, .taz), lzip (.tar.lz, .tlz), lzop (.tar.lzo, .tzo), lzma (.tar.lzma) and xz (.tar.xz)
  • Zip archives (.zip)
  • Jar archives (.jar, .ear, .war)
  • 7z archives (.7z)
  • iso9660 CD images (.iso)
  • Lha archives (.lzh)
  • Single files compressed with gzip (.gz), bzip (.bz), bzip2 (.bz2), compress (.Z), lzip (.lz), lzop (.lzo), lzma (.lzma) and xz (.xz)

LXQt Archiver doesn’t perform archive operations by itself, but relies on standard tools for this.

This package contain the LXQt archiver.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lxqt-archiver

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

You can also use apt command to install lxqt-archiver.

sudo apt -y install lxqt-archiver

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

sudo aptitude install lxqt-archiver

Summary

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