install-mimic command not found

Introduction

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

install-mimic: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: install-mimic: command not found

Solutions to install-mimic: command not found

How To Fix install-mimic: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu install-mimic is provided by install-mimic package.

install-mimic is:

The install-mimic utility copies the specified files to the specified destination (file or directory) similarly to install(1), but it preserves the ownership and access mode of the destination files. This is useful when updating files that have already been installed with locally modified copies that may be owned by the current user and not by the desired owner of the destination file (e.g. root).

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

sudo apt-get -y install install-mimic

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

You can also use apt command to install install-mimic.

sudo apt -y install install-mimic

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

sudo aptitude install install-mimic

Summary

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