doodle command not found

Introduction

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

doodle: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: doodle: command not found

Solutions to doodle: command not found

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

In Ubuntu doodle is provided by doodle package.

doodle is:

It searches your hard drive for files using pattern matching on meta-data. It extracts file-format specific meta-data using libextractor and builds a suffix tree to index the files. The index can then be searched rapidly. It is similar to locate, but can take advantage of information such as ID3 tags. It is possible to do full-text indexing using the appropriate libextractor plugins. It also supports using FAM to keep the database up-to-date.

You can use doodled (separate package) to keep the doodle database automagically updated.

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

sudo apt-get -y install doodle

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

You can also use apt command to install doodle.

sudo apt -y install doodle

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

sudo aptitude install doodle

Summary

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