mautil command not found

Introduction

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

mautil: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mautil: command not found

Solutions to mautil: command not found

How To Fix mautil: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mautil is provided by mono-addins-utils package.

mono-addins-utils is:

Mono.Addins is a framework for creating extensible CLI applications, and for creating libraries which extend those applications. Mono.Addins has been designed to be easy to use and useful for a wide range of applications: from simple applications with small extensibility needs, to complex applications which need support for large add-in structures.

This package contains a command-line utility to easily manipulate Mono.Addins registries provided by other software (including user-written applications).

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

sudo apt-get -y install mono-addins-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install mono-addins-utils.

sudo apt -y install mono-addins-utils

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

sudo aptitude install mono-addins-utils

Summary

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