streamzip command not found

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

Introduction

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

streamzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: streamzip: command not found

Solutions to streamzip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu streamzip is provided by libio-compress-perl package.

libio-compress-perl is:

This package contains the following IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress modules:

  • Compress::Zlib
  • IO::Compress::Base
  • IO::Compress::Bzip2
  • IO::Compress::Deflate
  • IO::Compress::Gzip
  • IO::Compress::RawDeflate
  • IO::Compress::Zip
  • IO::Uncompress::Base
  • IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2
  • IO::Uncompress::Gunzip
  • IO::Uncompress::Inflate
  • IO::Uncompress::RawInflate
  • IO::Uncompress::Unzip

Compress::Zlib is a Perl external module which provides an interface to the info-zip zlib compression library. zlib is a general purpose compression library.

Some of the features provided by Compress::Zlib include:

* in-memory compression and decompression
* read and write gzip (.gz) files directly.

IO::Compress::Bunzip2 and IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2 provide a Perl interface that allows transparent reading and writing bzip2 compressed data to files or buffers.

IO::Compress::Base is the base class for all IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress modules. It is not intended for direct use in application code. Its sole purpose is to be sub-classed by IO::Compress modules.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libio-compress-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libio-compress-perl.

sudo apt -y install libio-compress-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libio-compress-perl

Summary

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