rdist command not found

Introduction

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

rdist: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rdist: command not found

Solutions to rdist: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rdist is provided by rdist package.

rdist is:

Rdist is a program to maintain identical copies of files over multiple hosts. It preserves the owner, group, mode, and mtime of files if possible and can update programs that are executing.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rdist

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

You can also use apt command to install rdist.

sudo apt -y install rdist

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

sudo aptitude install rdist

Summary

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