AutoSearch command not found

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

Introduction

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

AutoSearch: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: AutoSearch: command not found

Solutions to AutoSearch: command not found

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

In Ubuntu AutoSearch is provided by libwww-search-perl package.

libwww-search-perl is:

WWW::Search is a collection of Perl modules which provide an API to various WWW search engines.

This package includes support for the following search engines:

  • Ebay
  • FirstGov
  • Googlism
  • JobServe
  • PubMed

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

sudo apt-get -y install libwww-search-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libwww-search-perl.

sudo apt -y install libwww-search-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libwww-search-perl

Summary

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