zdb command not found

Introduction

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

zdb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: zdb: command not found

Solutions to zdb: command not found

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

In Ubuntu zdb is provided by zfs-fuse package.

zfs-fuse is:

ZFS is an advanced filesystem from Sun Microsystems, originally developed for solaris. It provides a number of advanced features, such as live integrity checks, atomic updates, atomic snapshots and clones, compression, and much more.

This package provides an implementation of Sun’s ZFS filesystem in userspace, using FUSE.

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

sudo apt-get -y install zfs-fuse

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

You can also use apt command to install zfs-fuse.

sudo apt -y install zfs-fuse

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

sudo aptitude install zfs-fuse

Summary

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