remove-duplicates command not found

Introduction

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

remove-duplicates: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: remove-duplicates: command not found

Solutions to remove-duplicates: command not found

How To Fix remove-duplicates: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu remove-duplicates is provided by recoverjpeg package.

recoverjpeg is:

recoverjpeg tries to recover JFIF (JPEG) pictures and MOV movies from a peripheral. This may be useful if you mistakenly overwrite a partition or if a device such as a digital camera memory card is bogus.

This package provides these executables: recoverjpeg, recovermov, remove-duplicates and sort-pictures. The remove-duplicates is useful to remove duplicate files found. sort-pictures can be used to sort pictures according to exif date.

This package acts as a carver (data carving) and is useful in forensics investigations.

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

sudo apt-get -y install recoverjpeg

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

You can also use apt command to install recoverjpeg.

sudo apt -y install recoverjpeg

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

sudo aptitude install recoverjpeg

Summary

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