mkfs.exfat command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix mkfs.exfat command not found error message

Introduction

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

mkfs.exfat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mkfs.exfat: command not found

In Ubuntu mkfs.exfat is provided by exfatprogs package.

exfatprogs is:

Tools to manage extended file allocation table filesystem. This package provides tools to create, check and label the filesystem. It contains

mkfs.exfat to create an exFAT filesystem
fsck.exfat to check and repair an exFAT filesystem
tune.exfat to print and edit the filesystem label The tools included in this package are the exfatprogs maintained by Samsung engineers, who provided Linux exFAT support. A similar but independent implementation of these tools, written by the author of the exfat-fuse implementation, are available in the exfat-utils package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install exfatprogs

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

You can also use apt command to install exfatprogs.

sudo apt -y install exfatprogs

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

sudo aptitude install exfatprogs

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