unp command not found

Introduction

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

unp: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: unp: command not found

Solutions to unp: command not found

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

In Ubuntu unp is provided by unp package.

unp is:

unp is a small perl script which makes extraction of any archive files a bit easier. It support several compressors and archiver programs, chooses the right one(s) automatically and extracts one or more files in one go.

It might require additional packages to support proprietary archive types like “lha”, “ace”, “rar” (certain versions).

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

sudo apt-get -y install unp

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

You can also use apt command to install unp.

sudo apt -y install unp

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

sudo aptitude install unp

Summary

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