clamtk command not found

Introduction

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

clamtk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: clamtk: command not found

Solutions to clamtk: command not found

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

In Ubuntu clamtk is provided by clamtk package.

clamtk is:

ClamTk is a graphical front-end for Clam Antivirus.

It is designed to be an easy-to-use, lightweight, on-demand antivirus scanner for Linux systems.

Context menu support for KDE’s Plasma Desktop (Dolphin file manager) and Nemo and Thunar sendto is included. Context menu support for GNOME (Nautilus file manager), but due to additional dependencies required, it is in a separate package: clamtk-gnome.

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

sudo apt-get -y install clamtk

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

You can also use apt command to install clamtk.

sudo apt -y install clamtk

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

sudo aptitude install clamtk

Summary

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