zck_gen_zdict command not found

Introduction

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

zck_gen_zdict: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: zck_gen_zdict: command not found

Solutions to zck_gen_zdict: command not found

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

In Ubuntu zck_gen_zdict is provided by zchunk package.

zchunk is:

zchunk is a compressed file format that splits the file into independent chunks. This allows one to only download changed chunks when downloading a new version of the file, and also makes zchunk files efficient over rsync.

zchunk files are protected with strong checksums to verify that the file downloaded is, in fact, the file desired.

This package contains the command-line tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install zchunk

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

You can also use apt command to install zchunk.

sudo apt -y install zchunk

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

sudo aptitude install zchunk

Summary

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