unlink: command not found [How To Fix]

Learn how to fix unlink: command not found error message in this article. We will learn fixing this error message on several Linux distributions including Ubuntu and CentOS / AlmaLinux. We will also learn to resolve this problem on MacOS X

Problem

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

unlink: command not found

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

sudo apt-get -y install coreutils

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

You can also use apt command to install coreutils.

sudo apt -y install coreutils

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

sudo aptitude install coreutils

In Alpine Linux, we can install unlink using the command below.

apk add coreutils

In Arch Linux, to fix this error message, we can install unlink using the command below.

pacman -S coreutils

In CentOS or other RHEL based Linux distribution, we can install unlink using the command below.

yum install coreutils

In Fedora we can use dnf command to install unlink using the command below.

dnf install coreutils

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

brew install coreutils

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