msidiff command not found

Introduction

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

msidiff: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: msidiff: command not found

Solutions to msidiff: command not found

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

In Ubuntu msidiff is provided by msitools package.

msitools is:

msitools contains a number of programs to create, inspect and extract Windows Installer (.msi) files.

The following tools are included:

• msiinfo: inspects MSI packages
• msibuild: builds MSI packages
• msidiff: compares two MSI packages’ contents
• msidump: dumps raw MSI tables and stream contents
• msiextract: extracts files contained in MSI packages

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

sudo apt-get -y install msitools

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

You can also use apt command to install msitools.

sudo apt -y install msitools

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

sudo aptitude install msitools

Summary

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