lzop command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix lzop command not found error message

Introduction

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

lzop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lzop: command not found

Solutions to lzop: command not found

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

In Ubuntu lzop is provided by lzop package.

lzop is:

lzop is a compressor similar to gzip. Its main advantages over gzip are much higher compression and decompression speed. lzop was designed with the following goals in mind:

  1. reliability
  2. speed (both compression and decompression)
  3. reasonable drop-in compatibility with gzip
  4. portability

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

sudo apt-get -y install lzop

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

You can also use apt command to install lzop.

sudo apt -y install lzop

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

sudo aptitude install lzop

Summary

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