apturl command not found

Introduction

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

apturl: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: apturl: command not found

Solutions to apturl: command not found

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

In Ubuntu apturl is provided by apturl-common package.

apturl-common is:

AptUrl is a simple graphical application that takes an URL (which follows the apt-protocol) as a command line option, parses it and carries out the operations that the URL describes (that is, it asks the user if he wants the indicated packages to be installed and if the answer is positive does so for him).

This package contains the common data shared between the frontends.

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

sudo apt-get -y install apturl-common

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

You can also use apt command to install apturl-common.

sudo apt -y install apturl-common

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

sudo aptitude install apturl-common

Summary

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