dlocate command not found

Introduction

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

dlocate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dlocate: command not found

Solutions to dlocate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu dlocate is provided by dlocate package.

dlocate is:

Uses GNU grep and text dumps of dpkg’s data to greatly speed up finding out which package a file belongs to (i.e. a very fast dpkg -S). Many other uses, including options to view all files in a package, calculate disk space used, view and check md5sums, list man pages, etc.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dlocate

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

You can also use apt command to install dlocate.

sudo apt -y install dlocate

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

sudo aptitude install dlocate

Summary

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