devicename-detect command not found

Introduction

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

devicename-detect: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: devicename-detect: command not found

Solutions to devicename-detect: command not found

How To Fix devicename-detect: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu devicename-detect is provided by devicetype-detect package.

devicetype-detect is:

devicetype-detect attempts to determine device class of the running system based on the display size, display resolution, and presence or absence of a battery.

devicename-detect attempts to determine the name of the device, to the best knowledge of the device itself, for use as a sensible default model name.

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

sudo apt-get -y install devicetype-detect

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

You can also use apt command to install devicetype-detect.

sudo apt -y install devicetype-detect

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

sudo aptitude install devicetype-detect

Summary

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