ktp-contactlist command not found

Introduction

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

ktp-contactlist: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: ktp-contactlist: command not found

Solutions to ktp-contactlist: command not found

How To Fix ktp-contactlist: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu ktp-contactlist is provided by kde-telepathy-contact-list package.

kde-telepathy-contact-list is:

This package provides a contact list application based on telepathy, which allows you to list your friends from all your IM accounts and begin chatting with them.

This package is not meant to be used standalone. It is recommended to install the kde-telepathy metapackage instead.

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

sudo apt-get -y install kde-telepathy-contact-list

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

You can also use apt command to install kde-telepathy-contact-list.

sudo apt -y install kde-telepathy-contact-list

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

sudo aptitude install kde-telepathy-contact-list

Summary

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