germinate command not found

Introduction

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

germinate: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: germinate: command not found

Solutions to germinate: command not found

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

In Ubuntu germinate is provided by germinate package.

germinate is:

Germinate takes lists of seed packages and expands their dependencies to produce a full list of packages. This can be used for purposes such as managing the list of packages present in a derived distribution’s archive or CD builds.

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

sudo apt-get -y install germinate

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

You can also use apt command to install germinate.

sudo apt -y install germinate

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

sudo aptitude install germinate

Summary

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