gkdebconf command not found

Introduction

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

gkdebconf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gkdebconf: command not found

Solutions to gkdebconf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu gkdebconf is provided by gkdebconf package.

gkdebconf is:

This is a program that helps one using the “dpkg-reconfigure” tool. It is basically a graphical frontend. It makes life easier showing a simple menu of packages which can be reconfigured with Debconf and the Debconf frontends that can be used for the reconfiguration.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gkdebconf

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

You can also use apt command to install gkdebconf.

sudo apt -y install gkdebconf

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

sudo aptitude install gkdebconf

Summary

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