aptitude-curses command not found

Introduction

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

aptitude-curses: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: aptitude-curses: command not found

Solutions to aptitude-curses: command not found

How To Fix aptitude-curses: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu aptitude-curses is provided by aptitude package.

aptitude is:

aptitude is a package manager with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get.

aptitude is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing, and housebroken.

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

sudo apt-get -y install aptitude

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

You can also use apt command to install aptitude.

sudo apt -y install aptitude

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

sudo aptitude install aptitude

Summary

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