collect command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix collect command not found error message

Introduction

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

collect: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: collect: command not found

In Ubuntu collect is provided by kickoff package.

kickoff is:

A generalized framework for producing data from and about sources and installables in the Debian archive.

The components communicate data via the JSON and Protocol Buffer formats over fast and versatile ZeroMQ sockets.

These programs generate the data behind lintian.debian.org.

Configurable via YAML files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kickoff

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

You can also use apt command to install kickoff.

sudo apt -y install kickoff

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

sudo aptitude install kickoff

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