deb-gview command not found

Introduction

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

deb-gview: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: deb-gview: command not found

Solutions to deb-gview: command not found

How To Fix deb-gview: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu deb-gview is provided by deb-gview package.

deb-gview is:

Displays Debian control information, devscript details and details of the files that would be installed (names, sizes and locations). Files within the package can be viewed within the package or externally.

Accepts package locations on the command line to support the ‘open’ command in various file managers, one window for each package. Packages do not need to be installed to be viewed. Opening a changes file opens a new window for each package specified in the changes file.

Individual package files or packages referenced in a changes file can be viewed from local or remote filesystems.

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

sudo apt-get -y install deb-gview

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

You can also use apt command to install deb-gview.

sudo apt -y install deb-gview

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

sudo aptitude install deb-gview

Summary

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