pixz command not found

Introduction

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

pixz: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pixz: command not found

Solutions to pixz: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pixz is provided by pixz package.

pixz is:

Pixz is a multithreaded compressor/decompressor XZ fully compatible with those provided by xz-utils and busybox. By default it adds indexing information when compressing tar files that allows fast listing and partial-archive extraction.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pixz

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

You can also use apt command to install pixz.

sudo apt -y install pixz

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

sudo aptitude install pixz

Summary

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