mkreiserfs command not found

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

Introduction

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

mkreiserfs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mkreiserfs: command not found

In Ubuntu mkreiserfs is provided by reiserfsprogs package.

reiserfsprogs is:

This package contains utilities to create, check, resize, and debug ReiserFS filesystems.

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

sudo apt-get -y install reiserfsprogs

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

You can also use apt command to install reiserfsprogs.

sudo apt -y install reiserfsprogs

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

sudo aptitude install reiserfsprogs

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