wzip command not found

Introduction

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

wzip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wzip: command not found

Solutions to wzip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wzip is provided by wzip package.

wzip is:

The program wzip is a preprocessor for LOSSY data compression. A sequence of ascii floating-point numbers is transformed into a sequence of small integers ready for effective compression with e.g. gzip. The program can also be used for effective but time consuming denoising of measurement data. Wzip was originally written for the processing of EDX-linescans.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wzip

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

You can also use apt command to install wzip.

sudo apt -y install wzip

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

sudo aptitude install wzip

Summary

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