gnome-contacts command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix gnome-contacts command not found error message

Introduction

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

gnome-contacts: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnome-contacts: command not found

In Ubuntu gnome-contacts is provided by gnome-contacts package.

gnome-contacts is:

GNOME Contacts is a standalone application to view and manage contacts provided by all available contacts sources (Evolution, Empathy, etc).

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-contacts

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

You can also use apt command to install gnome-contacts.

sudo apt -y install gnome-contacts

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

sudo aptitude install gnome-contacts

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