plinth command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix plinth command not found error message

Introduction

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

plinth: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: plinth: command not found

Solutions to plinth: command not found

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

In Ubuntu plinth is provided by freedombox package.

freedombox is:

FreedomBox is designed to be your own inexpensive server at home. It runs free software and offers an increasing number of services ranging from a calendar or jabber server to a wiki or VPN. A web interface allows you to easily install and configure your apps.

This package provides the FreedomBox Service (Plinth) which installs, configures and manages all functions of FreedomBox. The service is managed using a web interface available at https://localhost/.

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

sudo apt-get -y install freedombox

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

You can also use apt command to install freedombox.

sudo apt -y install freedombox

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

sudo aptitude install freedombox

Summary

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