defid command not found

Introduction

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

defid: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: defid: command not found

Solutions to defid: command not found

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

In Ubuntu defid is provided by id-utils package.

id-utils is:

Actually, the term identifier' is too limiting--mkid’ stores tokens, be they program identifiers of any form, literal numbers, or words of human-readable text. Database queries can be issued from the command-line, or from within emacs, serving as an augmented tags facility.

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

sudo apt-get -y install id-utils

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

You can also use apt command to install id-utils.

sudo apt -y install id-utils

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

sudo aptitude install id-utils

Summary

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