lubuntu-upgrader command not found

Introduction

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

lubuntu-upgrader: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lubuntu-upgrader: command not found

Solutions to lubuntu-upgrader: command not found

How To Fix lubuntu-upgrader: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu lubuntu-upgrader is provided by lubuntu-update-notifier package.

lubuntu-update-notifier is:

Package includes a bash daemon (lubuntu-upg-notifier.sh) which checks if there are updates available. If there are it opens notifier.py which is a window that notifies about package updates available. If you decide to upgrade a full upgrade (not safe-upgrade) with the upgrader binary will take place.

Upgrader can also be run alone, it can be chosen to run cache update before and if a safe or full upgrade will be done. There is also a .desktop to call upgrader with cache update and a full upgrade.

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

sudo apt-get -y install lubuntu-update-notifier

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

You can also use apt command to install lubuntu-update-notifier.

sudo apt -y install lubuntu-update-notifier

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

sudo aptitude install lubuntu-update-notifier

Summary

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