findrule command not found

Introduction

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

findrule: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: findrule: command not found

Solutions to findrule: command not found

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

In Ubuntu findrule is provided by libfile-find-rule-perl package.

libfile-find-rule-perl is:

File::Find::Rule is a Perl module which essentially provides an easy-to-use interface to the popular module, File::Find. It provides a way to build rules that specify desired file and directory names using a text-globbing syntax (provided by Text::Glob). This makes it useful for simple tasks, like finding all “.pm” files in a given directory.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libfile-find-rule-perl

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

You can also use apt command to install libfile-find-rule-perl.

sudo apt -y install libfile-find-rule-perl

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

sudo aptitude install libfile-find-rule-perl

Summary

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