vcat command not found

Introduction

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

vcat: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vcat: command not found

Solutions to vcat: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vcat is provided by atfs package.

atfs is:

AtFS is a storage system supporting multiple versions of files and associating an arbitrary number of application defined attributes of the form “name=value” with each version. AtFS comes as a function library that is meant as an extension to the UNIX file system. It does this without the need for kernel modifications and without imposing any restrictions to existing file system applications. It is part of ShapeTools, a software configuration management system.

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

sudo apt-get -y install atfs

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

You can also use apt command to install atfs.

sudo apt -y install atfs

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

sudo aptitude install atfs

Summary

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