vmdkinfo command not found

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

Introduction

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

vmdkinfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vmdkinfo: command not found

In Ubuntu vmdkinfo is provided by libvmdk-utils package.

libvmdk-utils is:

libvmdk is a library to access the VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK) format.

This package contains tools to access data stored in VMDK files: vmdkinfo, vmdkmount.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libvmdk-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install libvmdk-utils.

sudo apt -y install libvmdk-utils

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

sudo aptitude install libvmdk-utils

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