helpdev command not found

Introduction

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

helpdev: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: helpdev: command not found

Solutions to helpdev: command not found

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

In Ubuntu helpdev is provided by helpdev package.

helpdev is:

This package provides a tool to help users and developers to get information about the environment to report bugs or even test your system without spending a day on it. It can get information about hardware, OS, paths, Python distribution and packages, including Qt-things.

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

sudo apt-get -y install helpdev

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

You can also use apt command to install helpdev.

sudo apt -y install helpdev

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

sudo aptitude install helpdev

Summary

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