dbus-interface-vcs-helper command not found

Introduction

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

dbus-interface-vcs-helper: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dbus-interface-vcs-helper: command not found

Solutions to dbus-interface-vcs-helper: command not found

How To Fix dbus-interface-vcs-helper: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dbus-interface-vcs-helper is provided by python3-dbusdeviation package.

python3-dbusdeviation is:

dbus-deviation is a project for parsing D-Bus introspection XML and processing it in various ways. Its main tool is dbus-interface-diff, which calculates the difference between two D-Bus APIs for the purpose of checking for API breaks.

This functionality is also available as a Python module, dbusdeviation.

A second Python module, dbusapi, is provided for parsing D-Bus introspection XML to produce an AST representing a D-Bus interface.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-dbusdeviation

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-dbusdeviation.

sudo apt -y install python3-dbusdeviation

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

sudo aptitude install python3-dbusdeviation

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dbus-interface-vcs-helper command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.