plowdown command not found

Introduction

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

plowdown: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: plowdown: command not found

Solutions to plowdown: command not found

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

In Ubuntu plowdown is provided by plowshare package.

plowshare is:

Plowshare is a framework for interacting with file sharing websites, providing an API to perform tasks like uploading and downloading files, and displaying CAPTCHAs to solve or sending them to CAPTCHA web services.

This package contains the framework and command line tolls, but does not contain any of the drivers (called ‘modules’) for specific file sharing websites.

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

sudo apt-get -y install plowshare

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

You can also use apt command to install plowshare.

sudo apt -y install plowshare

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

sudo aptitude install plowshare

Summary

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