licensecheck command not found

Introduction

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

licensecheck: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: licensecheck: command not found

Solutions to licensecheck: command not found

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

In Ubuntu licensecheck is provided by licensecheck package.

licensecheck is:

Licensecheck attempts to determine the license that applies to each file passed to it, by searching the start of the file for text belonging to various licenses.

Support for bash tab-completion requires the package bash-completion.

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

sudo apt-get -y install licensecheck

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

You can also use apt command to install licensecheck.

sudo apt -y install licensecheck

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

sudo aptitude install licensecheck

Summary

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