gdebi-gtk command not found

Introduction

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

gdebi-gtk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gdebi-gtk: command not found

Solutions to gdebi-gtk: command not found

How To Fix gdebi-gtk: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gdebi-gtk is provided by gdebi package.

gdebi is:

gdebi lets you install local deb packages resolving and installing its dependencies. apt does the same, but only for remote (http, ftp) located packages.

The package is also scanned via lintian before the install and its possible to inspect the control and data members of the packages.

This package contains the graphical user interface.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gdebi

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

You can also use apt command to install gdebi.

sudo apt -y install gdebi

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

sudo aptitude install gdebi

Summary

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