adequate command not found

Introduction

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

adequate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: adequate: command not found

Solutions to adequate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu adequate is provided by adequate package.

adequate is:

adequate checks packages installed on the system and reports bugs and policy violations.

The following checks are currently implemented:

• broken symlinks;
• missing copyright file;
• obsolete conffiles;
• Python modules not byte-compiled;
• missing libraries, undefined symbols, symbol size mismatches;
• license conflicts;
• program name collisions;
• missing alternatives;
• missing binfmt interpreters and detectors;
• missing pkg-config dependencies.

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

sudo apt-get -y install adequate

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

You can also use apt command to install adequate.

sudo apt -y install adequate

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

sudo aptitude install adequate

Summary

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