calamares command not found

Introduction

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

calamares: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: calamares: command not found

Solutions to calamares: command not found

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

In Ubuntu calamares is provided by calamares package.

calamares is:

Calamares is a distribution-independent installer framework.

It provides a graphical installer that can be used with nearly any distribution. This package is suitable for live media on Debian-based systems, and won’t be of any particular use on an already installed system.

You will likely want to provide your own config files to match your distribution, reading the Calamares documentation will guide you through that process.

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

sudo apt-get -y install calamares

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

You can also use apt command to install calamares.

sudo apt -y install calamares

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

sudo aptitude install calamares

Summary

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