ziptime command not found

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

Introduction

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

ziptime: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ziptime: command not found

Solutions to ziptime: command not found

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

In Ubuntu ziptime is provided by ziptime package.

ziptime is:

ziptime normalizes the timestamps in the header of a Zip file. It was created as part of the Android SDK to help make reproducible builds of Android application (.apk) files. It replaces all timestamps in the Zip headers with a static time (Jan 1 2008). The extra fields are not changed, so you’ll need to use the -X option to zip so that it doesn’t create the ‘universal time’ extra.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ziptime

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

You can also use apt command to install ziptime.

sudo apt -y install ziptime

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

sudo aptitude install ziptime

Summary

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