fwts-collect command not found

Introduction

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

fwts-collect: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fwts-collect: command not found

Solutions to fwts-collect: command not found

How To Fix fwts-collect: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fwts-collect is provided by fwts package.

fwts is:

This is a firmware test suite that performs sanity checks on system firmware. It is intended to identify BIOS and ACPI errors and if appropriate it will try to explain the errors and give advice to help workaround or fix firmware bugs. It is primarily intended to be a Linux-centric firmware troubleshooting tool.

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

sudo apt-get -y install fwts

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

You can also use apt command to install fwts.

sudo apt -y install fwts

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

sudo aptitude install fwts

Summary

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