quotatool command not found

Introduction

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

quotatool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: quotatool: command not found

Solutions to quotatool: command not found

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

In Ubuntu quotatool is provided by quotatool package.

quotatool is:

Quotatool is a utility for manipulating the Linux Diskquota system, which sets file system usage caps for users.

The “edquota” tool in the standard quota package goes through a text editor; “quotatool” on the other hand can set disk quotas directly from the command line, and is suitable for use in scripts and other non-interactive situations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install quotatool

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

You can also use apt command to install quotatool.

sudo apt -y install quotatool

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

sudo aptitude install quotatool

Summary

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