rdiff-backup-fs command not found

Introduction

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

rdiff-backup-fs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rdiff-backup-fs: command not found

Solutions to rdiff-backup-fs: command not found

How To Fix rdiff-backup-fs: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu rdiff-backup-fs is provided by rdiff-backup-fs package.

rdiff-backup-fs is:

rdiff-backup-fs is a filesystem in userspace that reads rdiff-backup archives and provides convenient access for different revisions of the copied files and directories.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rdiff-backup-fs

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

You can also use apt command to install rdiff-backup-fs.

sudo apt -y install rdiff-backup-fs

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

sudo aptitude install rdiff-backup-fs

Summary

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