dose-outdated command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix dose-outdated command not found error message

Introduction

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

dose-outdated: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: dose-outdated: command not found

In Ubuntu dose-outdated is provided by dose-extra package.

dose-extra is:

This package contains extra tools for analyzing meta-data of software packages:

ceve, a general metadata parser supporting different input formats (Debian, rpm, and others) and different output formats.
dose-outdated, a Debian-specific tool for finding packages that are not installable with respect to a package repository, and that can only be made installable again by fixing the package itself.
dose-challenged, a Debian-specific tool for checking which packages will certainly become uninstallable when some existing package is upgraded to a newer version.
dose-deb-coinstall, a Debian-specific tool for checking whether a set of packages can be installed all together. The tools dose-distcheck and dose-builddebcheck are packaged in their own respective packages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install dose-extra

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

You can also use apt command to install dose-extra.

sudo apt -y install dose-extra

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

sudo aptitude install dose-extra

In this tutorial we learn how to fix dose-outdated command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.