qtxdg-desktop-file-start command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix qtxdg-desktop-file-start command not found error message

Introduction

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

qtxdg-desktop-file-start: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qtxdg-desktop-file-start: command not found

In Ubuntu qtxdg-desktop-file-start is provided by qtxdg-dev-tools package.

qtxdg-dev-tools is:

This package provide some tools for qtxdg:

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

sudo apt-get -y install qtxdg-dev-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install qtxdg-dev-tools.

sudo apt -y install qtxdg-dev-tools

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

sudo aptitude install qtxdg-dev-tools

In this tutorial we learn how to fix qtxdg-desktop-file-start command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.