unzzip command not found

Introduction

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

unzzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: unzzip: command not found

Solutions to unzzip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu unzzip is provided by zziplib-bin package.

zziplib-bin is:

The zziplib library is intentionally lightweight, it offers the ability to easily extract data from files archived in a single zip file. Applications can bundle files into a single zip archive and access them. The implementation is based only on the (free) subset of compression with the zlib algorithm which is actually used by the zip/unzip tools.

This package contains some useful binaries to extract data from zip archives.

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

sudo apt-get -y install zziplib-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install zziplib-bin.

sudo apt -y install zziplib-bin

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

sudo aptitude install zziplib-bin

Summary

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