owfs command not found

Introduction

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

owfs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: owfs: command not found

Solutions to owfs: command not found

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

In Ubuntu owfs is provided by owfs-fuse package.

owfs-fuse is:

The 1-Wire bus is a cheap low-speed bus for devices like weather sensors, access control, etc. It can be attached to your system via serial, USB, I2C, and other interfaces.

OWFS is a userspace virtual filesystem exposing all 1-Wire properties mapped into a filesystem.

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

sudo apt-get -y install owfs-fuse

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

You can also use apt command to install owfs-fuse.

sudo apt -y install owfs-fuse

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

sudo aptitude install owfs-fuse

Summary

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