folks-import command not found

Introduction

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

folks-import: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: folks-import: command not found

Solutions to folks-import: command not found

How To Fix folks-import: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu folks-import is provided by folks-tools package.

folks-tools is:

libfolks is a library that aggregates people from multiple sources (eg, Telepathy connection managers and eventually evolution data server, Facebook, etc.) to create metacontacts.

This package contains tools to inspect the folks database and import metacontacts from pidgin

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

sudo apt-get -y install folks-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install folks-tools.

sudo apt -y install folks-tools

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

sudo aptitude install folks-tools

Summary

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