mono-find-provides command not found

Introduction

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

mono-find-provides: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mono-find-provides: command not found

Solutions to mono-find-provides: command not found

How To Fix mono-find-provides: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mono-find-provides is provided by mono-utils package.

mono-utils is:

Mono is a platform for running and developing applications based on the ECMA/ISO Standards. Mono is an open source effort led by Xamarin. Mono provides a complete CLR (Common Language Runtime) including compiler and runtime, which can produce and execute CIL (Common Intermediate Language) bytecode (aka assemblies), and a class library.

This package includes various tools useful for CLI developers, like pedump, monodis and monograph.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mono-utils

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

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

sudo apt -y install mono-utils

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

sudo aptitude install mono-utils

Summary

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