rdfind command not found

Introduction

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

rdfind: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rdfind: command not found

Solutions to rdfind: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rdfind is provided by rdfind package.

rdfind is:

rdfind is a program to find duplicate files and optionally list, delete them or replace them with symlinks or hard links. It is a command line program written in c++, which has proven to be pretty quick compared to its alternatives.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rdfind

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

You can also use apt command to install rdfind.

sudo apt -y install rdfind

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

sudo aptitude install rdfind

Summary

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