rzip command not found

Introduction

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

rzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rzip: command not found

Solutions to rzip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rzip is provided by rzip package.

rzip is:

rzip is a compression program able to take advantage of long distance redundancies in files, allowing greater compression ratios. rzip uses a history buffer of up to 900MB, while gzip uses 32KB and bzip2 uses 900KB. rzip cannot read from the standard input or write to the standard output.

This package provides rzip and runzip commands.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rzip

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

You can also use apt command to install rzip.

sudo apt -y install rzip

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

sudo aptitude install rzip

Summary

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