identify-cli command not found

Introduction

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

identify-cli: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: identify-cli: command not found

Solutions to identify-cli: command not found

How To Fix identify-cli: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu identify-cli is provided by python3-identify package.

python3-identify is:

Identify is a Python module to get information about files, such as:

• File type (file, symlink, directory)
• Mode (is it executable?)
• File name (mostly based on extension)
• If executable, the shebang is read and the interpreter interpreted

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-identify

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-identify.

sudo apt -y install python3-identify

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

sudo aptitude install python3-identify

Summary

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