gnome-software command not found

Introduction

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

gnome-software: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: gnome-software: command not found

Solutions to gnome-software: command not found

How To Fix gnome-software: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu gnome-software is provided by gnome-software package.

gnome-software is:

Software lets you install and update applications and system extensions.

Software uses a plugin architecture to separate the frontend from the technologies that are used underneath. Currently, a PackageKit plugin provides data from a number of traditional packaging systems, such as rpm or apt. An appdata plugin provides additional metadata from locally installed data in the appdata format.

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

sudo apt-get -y install gnome-software

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

You can also use apt command to install gnome-software.

sudo apt -y install gnome-software

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

sudo aptitude install gnome-software

Summary

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