howdoi command not found

Introduction

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

howdoi: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: howdoi: command not found

Solutions to howdoi: command not found

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

In Ubuntu howdoi is provided by howdoi package.

howdoi is:

howdoi will search Google for StackOverflow answers and output you the most voted one. Multiple output options are supported, such as providing just a link to the answer, providing multiple answers for the same question, etc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install howdoi

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

You can also use apt command to install howdoi.

sudo apt -y install howdoi

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

sudo aptitude install howdoi

Summary

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