xdelta command not found

Introduction

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

xdelta: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xdelta: command not found

Solutions to xdelta: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xdelta is provided by xdelta package.

xdelta is:

Xdelta is an application program designed to compute changes between files. These changes (deltas) are similar to the output of the “diff” program in that they may be used to store and transmit only the changes between files. However, unlike diff, the output of Xdelta is not expressed in a human-readable format–Xdelta can also apply these deltas to a copy of the original file. Xdelta uses a fast, linear algorithm and performs well on both binary and text files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xdelta

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

You can also use apt command to install xdelta.

sudo apt -y install xdelta

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

sudo aptitude install xdelta

Summary

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