rclone command not found

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

Introduction

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

rclone: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rclone: command not found

Solutions to rclone: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rclone is provided by rclone package.

rclone is:

Rclone is a program to sync files and directories between the local file system and a variety of commercial cloud storage providers:

  • Google Drive
  • Amazon S3
  • Openstack Swift / Rackspace cloud files / Memset Memstore
  • Dropbox
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Amazon Drive
  • Microsoft One Drive
  • Hubic
  • Backblaze B2
  • Yandex Disk
  • Infomaniak kDrive / SwissBackup

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

sudo apt-get -y install rclone

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

You can also use apt command to install rclone.

sudo apt -y install rclone

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

sudo aptitude install rclone

Summary

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