virt-rescue command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix virt-rescue command not found error message

Introduction

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

virt-rescue: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: virt-rescue: command not found

In Ubuntu virt-rescue is provided by guestfish package.

guestfish is:

The libguestfs library allows accessing and modifying guest disk images.

This package contains guestfish, the interactive shell, and some small tools that are built around it.

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

sudo apt-get -y install guestfish

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

You can also use apt command to install guestfish.

sudo apt -y install guestfish

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

sudo aptitude install guestfish

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