parchive command not found

Introduction

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

parchive: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: parchive: command not found

Solutions to parchive: command not found

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

In Ubuntu parchive is provided by parchive package.

parchive is:

This utility applies the data-recovery capability concepts of RAID-like systems to the posting and downloading of multi-part archives on USENET by providing the ability to create and use redundant recovery records. It supports the ‘Reed-Soloman Code’ implementation that allows for recovery of any ‘X’ volumes for ‘X’ parity volumes present. It is popularly used on USENET postings, but is not limited to this use.

The Debian parchive package supports “legacy” version 1.0 PAR files. The Debian par2 package supports version 2.0 PAR files.

Upstream source: http://parchive.sourceforge.net/

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

sudo apt-get -y install parchive

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

You can also use apt command to install parchive.

sudo apt -y install parchive

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

sudo aptitude install parchive

Summary

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