dbus-test-tool command not found

Introduction

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

dbus-test-tool: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dbus-test-tool: command not found

Solutions to dbus-test-tool: command not found

How To Fix dbus-test-tool: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu dbus-test-tool is provided by dbus-tests package.

dbus-tests is:

D-Bus is a message bus, used for sending messages between applications. Conceptually, it fits somewhere in between raw sockets and CORBA in terms of complexity.

This package provides automated and manual tests for D-Bus, and the dbus-test-tool utility. It also provides copies of the D-Bus libraries and executables compiled with extra debug information and logging.

See the dbus package description for more information about D-Bus in general.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dbus-tests

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

You can also use apt command to install dbus-tests.

sudo apt -y install dbus-tests

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

sudo aptitude install dbus-tests

Summary

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