whenever command not found

Introduction

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

whenever: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: whenever: command not found

Solutions to whenever: command not found

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

In Ubuntu whenever is provided by ruby-whenever package.

ruby-whenever is:

whenever provides a clean ruby syntax for writing and deploying cron jobs. It provides commands to install and uninstall cronjobs, so for example an application can install its cronjobs when it starts, and uninstall them when it stops for maintaince.

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

sudo apt-get -y install ruby-whenever

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

You can also use apt command to install ruby-whenever.

sudo apt -y install ruby-whenever

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

sudo aptitude install ruby-whenever

Summary

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