knewstuff-dialog command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix knewstuff-dialog command not found error message

Introduction

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

knewstuff-dialog: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: knewstuff-dialog: command not found

Solutions to knewstuff-dialog: command not found

How To Fix knewstuff-dialog: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu knewstuff-dialog is provided by knewstuff-dialog package.

knewstuff-dialog is:

Framework for downloading and sharing additional application data.

This package contains standalone tool for use by apps which don’t want a hard dependency.

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

sudo apt-get -y install knewstuff-dialog

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

You can also use apt command to install knewstuff-dialog.

sudo apt -y install knewstuff-dialog

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

sudo aptitude install knewstuff-dialog

Summary

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