searchmonkey command not found

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

Introduction

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

searchmonkey: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: searchmonkey: command not found

Solutions to searchmonkey: command not found

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

In Ubuntu searchmonkey is provided by searchmonkey package.

searchmonkey is:

SearchMonkey is a light-weight Gtk application that aims to replace the cumbersome find/grep with a slick user interface that quickly provides a mark-up showing locations and quantity of text matches. The goal is to provide a simple to use and accessible search tool for end-users, and software developers alike.

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

sudo apt-get -y install searchmonkey

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

You can also use apt command to install searchmonkey.

sudo apt -y install searchmonkey

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

sudo aptitude install searchmonkey

Summary

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