s3fs command not found

Introduction

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

s3fs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: s3fs: command not found

Solutions to s3fs: command not found

How To Fix s3fs: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu s3fs is provided by s3fs package.

s3fs is:

s3fs is a FUSE filesystem that allows you to mount an Amazon S3 bucket as a local filesystem. It stores files natively and transparently in S3 (i.e., you can use other programs to access the same files). Maximum file size is 5 TB when using multipart upload.

s3fs is stable and is being used in a number of production environments, e.g., rsync backup to s3.

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

sudo apt-get -y install s3fs

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

You can also use apt command to install s3fs.

sudo apt -y install s3fs

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

sudo aptitude install s3fs

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix s3fs command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.