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I'm running OpenMediaVault which is a Debian based Linux distribution and the file command is missing.

Is there any way to install it?

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On a Debian systems file can be installed with:

sudo apt-get install file
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    You can't expect sudo to be available on any Debian-based system. The correct answer would be to run apt-get install file with root permissions independent on how to reach them (sudo, su -, ssh root@localhost, whatever) Commented Mar 31, 2015 at 12:02
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    @XTaran Of course I can expect it to be available. Why would I not be able to expect that? sudo might not be available, but that doesn't hinder my expectation that it will be. I might not be able to login as root or sshd not installed. I can also expect a keyboard to type something in, but it might not be there. If you could confirm that mediavault would not, by default have sudo available, but would have a root password, that is be useful information (for Ubuntu systems based on Debian my experience is that it is the other way around: sudo installed, but no default login for root Commented Mar 31, 2015 at 12:57

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