cpandb command not found

Introduction

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

cpandb: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: cpandb: command not found

Solutions to cpandb: command not found

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

In Ubuntu cpandb is provided by libcpan-sqlite-perl package.

libcpan-sqlite-perl is:

CPAN::SQLite is used for setting up, maintaining, and searching through a local CPAN database consisting of information in the three main CPAN index files:

$CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz $CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz $CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz

DBD::SQLite is used as the database engine.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libcpan-sqlite-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libcpan-sqlite-perl.

sudo apt -y install libcpan-sqlite-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libcpan-sqlite-perl

Summary

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