Command 'chmod' not found, did you mean: [closed]

I was trying to install metasploit on ubuntu and i got this error :

Command ' chmod' not found, did you mean: command 'chmod' from deb coreutils (8.30-3ubuntu2) Try: sudo apt install <deb name> 

Any work arounds?

thanks.

1 Answer

You can run sudo apt install --reinstall coreutils to put chmod back on your system.

Example:

terrance@terrance-ubuntu:~$ chmod Command 'chmod' not found, but can be installed with: sudo apt install coreutils terrance@terrance-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall coreutils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 47 not upgraded. Need to get 1,231 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 bionic/main amd64 coreutils amd64 8.28-1ubuntu1 [1,231 kB] Fetched 1,231 kB in 1s (1,242 kB/s) (Reading database ... 669001 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../coreutils_8.28-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking coreutils (8.28-1ubuntu1) over (8.28-1ubuntu1) ... Setting up coreutils (8.28-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ... Processing triggers for install-info (6.5.0.dfsg.1-2) ... terrance@terrance-ubuntu:~$ chmod chmod: missing operand Try 'chmod --help' for more information. 

Hope this helps!