installwatch command not found

Introduction

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

installwatch: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: installwatch: command not found

Solutions to installwatch: command not found

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

In Ubuntu installwatch is provided by checkinstall package.

checkinstall is:

CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your installation script (“make install” “make install_modules”, “setup”, etc), builds a standard binary package and installs it in your system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your distribution’s standard package management utilities.

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

sudo apt-get -y install checkinstall

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

You can also use apt command to install checkinstall.

sudo apt -y install checkinstall

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

sudo aptitude install checkinstall

Summary

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