xzless command not found

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

Introduction

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

xzless: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: xzless: command not found

Solutions to xzless: command not found

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

In Ubuntu xzless is provided by xz-utils package.

xz-utils is:

XZ is the successor to the Lempel-Ziv/Markov-chain Algorithm compression format, which provides memory-hungry but powerful compression (often better than bzip2) and fast, easy decompression.

This package provides the command line tools for working with XZ compression, including xz, unxz, xzcat, xzgrep, and so on. They can also handle the older LZMA format, and if invoked via appropriate symlinks will emulate the behavior of the commands in the lzma package.

The XZ format is similar to the older LZMA format but includes some improvements for general use:

  • ‘file’ magic for detecting XZ files;
  • crc64 data integrity check;
  • limited random-access reading support;
  • improved support for multithreading (not used in xz-utils);
  • support for flushing the encoder.

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

sudo apt-get -y install xz-utils

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

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

sudo apt -y install xz-utils

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

sudo aptitude install xz-utils

Summary

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