installcheck command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix installcheck command not found error message

Introduction

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

installcheck: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: installcheck: command not found

In Ubuntu installcheck is provided by libsolv-tools package.

libsolv-tools is:

This dependency solver code in this package is based on two major, but independent, blocks:

Using a dictionary approach to store and retrieve package and dependency information.
Using satisfiability, a well known and researched topic, for resolving package dependencies.

This package contains command-line tools that facilitate using libsolv.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libsolv-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install libsolv-tools.

sudo apt -y install libsolv-tools

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

sudo aptitude install libsolv-tools

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