alacarte command not found

Introduction

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

alacarte: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: alacarte: command not found

Solutions to alacarte: command not found

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

In Ubuntu alacarte is provided by alacarte package.

alacarte is:

Alacarte is an easy-to-use menu editor for GNOME that can add and edit new entries and menus. It works with the freedesktop.org menu specification and should work with any desktop environment that uses the spec.

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

sudo apt-get -y install alacarte

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

You can also use apt command to install alacarte.

sudo apt -y install alacarte

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

sudo aptitude install alacarte

Summary

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