tardiff command not found

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

Introduction

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

tardiff: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: tardiff: command not found

Solutions to tardiff: command not found

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

In Ubuntu tardiff is provided by tardiff package.

tardiff is:

TarDiff compares the contents of two tarballs and reports on any differences found between them. Its use is mainly for release managers who can use it as a QA tool to make sure no files have accidentally been left over or were added by mistake. TarDiff supports compressed tarballs, diff statistics and suppression of GNU autotool changes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tardiff

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

You can also use apt command to install tardiff.

sudo apt -y install tardiff

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

sudo aptitude install tardiff

Summary

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