zip command not found

Introduction

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

zip: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: zip: command not found

Solutions to zip: command not found

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

In Ubuntu zip is provided by zip package.

zip is:

This is InfoZIP’s zip program. It produces files that are fully compatible with the popular PKZIP program; however, the command line options are not identical. In other words, the end result is the same, but the methods differ. :-)

This version supports encryption.

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

sudo apt-get -y install zip

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

You can also use apt command to install zip.

sudo apt -y install zip

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

sudo aptitude install zip

Summary

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