mate-doc-common command not found

Introduction

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

mate-doc-common: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mate-doc-common: command not found

Solutions to mate-doc-common: command not found

How To Fix mate-doc-common: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mate-doc-common is provided by mate-common package.

mate-common is:

mate-common is an extension to autoconf, automake and libtool for the MATE environment and MATE using applications. Included are mate-autogen.sh and several macros to help in MATE source trees.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mate-common

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

You can also use apt command to install mate-common.

sudo apt -y install mate-common

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

sudo aptitude install mate-common

Summary

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