pm-uninstall command not found

Introduction

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

pm-uninstall: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pm-uninstall: command not found

Solutions to pm-uninstall: command not found

How To Fix pm-uninstall: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu pm-uninstall is provided by pmuninstall package.

pmuninstall is:

pmuninstall is a fast module uninstaller. It reads installed files lists from *.packlist files (generated when installing modules using e.g. cpanminus) and deletes them.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pmuninstall

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

You can also use apt command to install pmuninstall.

sudo apt -y install pmuninstall

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

sudo aptitude install pmuninstall

Summary

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