guilt command not found

Introduction

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

guilt: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: guilt: command not found

Solutions to guilt: command not found

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

In Ubuntu guilt is provided by guilt package.

guilt is:

Guilt (Git Quilt) is a series of bash scripts which add a Mercurial queues-like functionality and interface to git. The one distinguishing feature from other quilt-like porcelains, is the format of the patches directory.

All the information is stored as plain text - a series file and the patches (one per file). This easily lends itself to versioning the patches using any number of SCMs.

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

sudo apt-get -y install guilt

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

You can also use apt command to install guilt.

sudo apt -y install guilt

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

sudo aptitude install guilt

Summary

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