unalz command not found

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

Introduction

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

unalz: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: unalz: command not found

In Ubuntu unalz is provided by unalz package.

unalz is:

This is the utility used for decompressing ALZip format files. It mainly operates on files with names ending in ‘.alz’.

Note that it only support Alzip program’s old (pre-2009) ALZ format. The new “EGG” format is completely different with ALZ and not supported.

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

sudo apt-get -y install unalz

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

You can also use apt command to install unalz.

sudo apt -y install unalz

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

sudo aptitude install unalz

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