pkginfo command not found

Introduction

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

pkginfo: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pkginfo: command not found

Solutions to pkginfo: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pkginfo is provided by python3-pkginfo package.

python3-pkginfo is:

This package provides an API for querying the distutils metadata written in the PKG-INFO file inside a source distribution (an sdist), or into the EGG-INFO directory of an installed distribution.

This package contains the Python 3 version of the library In addition, this package contains the ‘pkginfo’ executable

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-pkginfo

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-pkginfo.

sudo apt -y install python3-pkginfo

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

sudo aptitude install python3-pkginfo

Summary

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