dex command not found

Introduction

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

dex: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dex: command not found

Solutions to dex: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dex is provided by dex package.

dex is:

DesktopEntry eXecution implements the Freedesktop.org autostart specification, independent of any desktop or window manager environment. Applications may be filtered based on the Desktop Environment advertised in the .desktop file.

dex can also create a minimal .desktop file for a specified program.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dex

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

You can also use apt command to install dex.

sudo apt -y install dex

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

sudo aptitude install dex

Summary

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