metastore command not found

Introduction

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

metastore: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: metastore: command not found

Solutions to metastore: command not found

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

In Ubuntu metastore is provided by metastore package.

metastore is:

metastore is a tool to store the metadata of files/directories/links in a file tree to a separate file and to later compare and apply the stored metadata to said file tree.

The tool was written as a supplement to git which does not store all metadata, making it unsuitable for e.g. storing /etc in a repo.

metastore can also be helpful in a backup script if you want to create a tarball of a file tree and make sure that “everything” (e.g. xattrs, mtime, owner, group) is stored along with the files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install metastore

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

You can also use apt command to install metastore.

sudo apt -y install metastore

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

sudo aptitude install metastore

Summary

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