laptop-detect command not found

Introduction

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

laptop-detect: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: laptop-detect: command not found

Solutions to laptop-detect: command not found

How To Fix laptop-detect: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu laptop-detect is provided by laptop-detect package.

laptop-detect is:

This package provides a simple shell script which attempts to determine whether it is being run on a laptop (or similar portable machine). It is mainly useful for installers.

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

sudo apt-get -y install laptop-detect

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

You can also use apt command to install laptop-detect.

sudo apt -y install laptop-detect

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

sudo aptitude install laptop-detect

Summary

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