chkstow command not found

Introduction

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

chkstow: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: chkstow: command not found

Solutions to chkstow: command not found

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

In Ubuntu chkstow is provided by stow package.

stow is:

GNU Stow is a software installation manager for /usr/local. Using symbolic links, GNU Stow helps you keep the installations separate (/usr/local/stow/emacs vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) while maintaining the illusion that they are all under /usr/local.

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

sudo apt-get -y install stow

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

You can also use apt command to install stow.

sudo apt -y install stow

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

sudo aptitude install stow

Summary

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