nbdcopy command not found

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

Introduction

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

nbdcopy: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: nbdcopy: command not found

In Ubuntu nbdcopy is provided by libnbd-bin package.

libnbd-bin is:

NBD — Network Block Device — is a protocol for accessing Block Devices (hard disks and disk-like things) over a Network.

This is the NBD client library in userspace, a simple library for writing NBD clients.

This package contains utilities that make use of libnbd:

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

sudo apt-get -y install libnbd-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libnbd-bin.

sudo apt -y install libnbd-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libnbd-bin

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