sysconftoolize command not found

Introduction

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

sysconftoolize: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: sysconftoolize: command not found

Solutions to sysconftoolize: command not found

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

In Ubuntu sysconftoolize is provided by sysconftool package.

sysconftool is:

sysconftool is a development utility that helps to install application configuration files. sysconftool allows an existing application to be upgraded without losing the older version’s configuration settings, but that’s the advantage over plain dpkg upgrading, will add new configuration settings (and remove unneeded).

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

sudo apt-get -y install sysconftool

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

You can also use apt command to install sysconftool.

sudo apt -y install sysconftool

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

sudo aptitude install sysconftool

Summary

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