xdelta3 command not found

Introduction

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

xdelta3: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xdelta3: command not found

Solutions to xdelta3: command not found

How To Fix xdelta3: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu xdelta3 is provided by xdelta3 package.

xdelta3 is:

Xdelta3 is a set of tools designed to compute changes between binary files. These changes (delta files) are similar to the output of the “diff” program, in that they may be used to store and transmit only the changes between files. The “delta files” that Xdelta3 manages are stored in RFC3284 (VCDIFF) format.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xdelta3

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

You can also use apt command to install xdelta3.

sudo apt -y install xdelta3

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

sudo aptitude install xdelta3

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix xdelta3 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.