mount.ploop command not found

Introduction

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

mount.ploop: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mount.ploop: command not found

Solutions to mount.ploop: command not found

How To Fix mount.ploop: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mount.ploop is provided by ploop package.

ploop is:

Ploop is a disk loopback block device, not unlike loop but with many features like dynamic resize, snapshots, backups etc. The main idea is to put container filesystem in a file.

This package contains tools to work with ploop devices and images.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ploop

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

You can also use apt command to install ploop.

sudo apt -y install ploop

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

sudo aptitude install ploop

Summary

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