recfmt command not found

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

Introduction

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

recfmt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: recfmt: command not found

In Ubuntu recfmt is provided by recutils package.

recutils is:

GNU Recutils is a set of tools and libraries to access human-editable, text-based databases called recfiles.

The data is stored as a sequence of records, each record containing an arbitrary number of named fields.

Despite its simplicity, recfiles can be used to store medium-sized databases.

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

sudo apt-get -y install recutils

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

You can also use apt command to install recutils.

sudo apt -y install recutils

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

sudo aptitude install recutils

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