minilzip command not found

Introduction

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

minilzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: minilzip: command not found

Solutions to minilzip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu minilzip is provided by minilzip package.

minilzip 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. Lzip decompresses almost as fast as gzip and compresses better than bzip2, which makes it well suited for software distribution and data archiving.

Minilzip is a minimal version of lzip using the lzip file format; the files produced by Minilzip are fully compatible with lzip.

Minilzip is intended as a test program for the lzlib library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install minilzip

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

You can also use apt command to install minilzip.

sudo apt -y install minilzip

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

sudo aptitude install minilzip

Summary

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