showfsck command not found

Introduction

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

showfsck: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: showfsck: command not found

Solutions to showfsck: command not found

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

In Ubuntu showfsck is provided by showfsck package.

showfsck is:

This package displays during startup and halt the number of mounts for each ext2/3 partition before an fsck will be forced, so that the user will not be suprised.

Very useful for people that often reboot (laptop users for example)

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

sudo apt-get -y install showfsck

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

You can also use apt command to install showfsck.

sudo apt -y install showfsck

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

sudo aptitude install showfsck

Summary

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