tar command not found

Introduction

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

tar: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tar: command not found

Solutions to tar: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tar is provided by tar package.

tar is:

Tar is a program for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar format. The function it performs is conceptually similar to cpio, and to things like PKZIP in the DOS world. It is heavily used by the Debian package management system, and is useful for performing system backups and exchanging sets of files with others.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tar

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

You can also use apt command to install tar.

sudo apt -y install tar

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

sudo aptitude install tar

Summary

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