vfu command not found

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

Introduction

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

vfu: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vfu: command not found

Solutions to vfu: command not found

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

In Ubuntu vfu is provided by vfu package.

vfu is:

vfu is a nice file-manager using the ncurses library. It has many nice features:

  • Fast one-key commands
  • Filename completion and wildcard expansion
  • Directory tree with sizes
  • File-type colorization
  • Archives support (TAR, TGZ, BZ2, and many more)
  • FTP support through archive-like interface
  • Internal text/hex file viewer and hex editor
  • Automount feature
  • Extensive user-defined external support/utils!

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

sudo apt-get -y install vfu

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

You can also use apt command to install vfu.

sudo apt -y install vfu

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

sudo aptitude install vfu

Summary

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