apt-file command not found

Introduction

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

apt-file: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: apt-file: command not found

Solutions to apt-file: command not found

How To Fix apt-file: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu apt-file is provided by apt-file package.

apt-file is:

apt-file is a command line tool for searching files contained in packages for the APT packaging system. You can search in which package a file is included or list the contents of a package without installing or fetching it.

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

sudo apt-get -y install apt-file

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

You can also use apt command to install apt-file.

sudo apt -y install apt-file

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

sudo aptitude install apt-file

Summary

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