malcontent-control command not found

Introduction

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

malcontent-control: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: malcontent-control: command not found

Solutions to malcontent-control: command not found

How To Fix malcontent-control: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu malcontent-control is provided by malcontent-gui package.

malcontent-gui is:

malcontent implements support for restricting the type of content accessible to non-administrator accounts on a Linux system. Typically, when this is used, a non-administrator account will be for a child using the system; and the administrator accounts will be for the parents; and the content being filtered will be apps which are not suitable for the child to use, due to (for example) being too violent.

This is not a security boundary, and a sufficiently technically advanced user may always work around these parental controls. malcontent is not a mandatory access control (MAC) system like AppArmor or SELinux. However, its correct use by applications should provide enough of an obstacle to prevent users easily or accidentally having access to content which they shouldn’t.

This package contains the GUI to configure malcontent.

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

sudo apt-get -y install malcontent-gui

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

You can also use apt command to install malcontent-gui.

sudo apt -y install malcontent-gui

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

sudo aptitude install malcontent-gui

Summary

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