blend-update-menus command not found

Introduction

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

blend-update-menus: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: blend-update-menus: command not found

Solutions to blend-update-menus: command not found

How To Fix blend-update-menus: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu blend-update-menus is provided by blends-common package.

blends-common is:

This package builds the basic infra structure for metapackages.

This package provides some files which are common to metapackages of Common Debian Distributions. It introduces a method to handle system users in a group named according to the name of the Debian Pure Blend.

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

sudo apt-get -y install blends-common

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

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

sudo apt -y install blends-common

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

sudo aptitude install blends-common

Summary

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