mdetect command not found

Introduction

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

mdetect: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mdetect: command not found

Solutions to mdetect: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mdetect is provided by mdetect package.

mdetect is:

mdetect is a tool for autoconfiguring mice; it is typically used as the backend to some user-friendly frontend code. mdetect writes the autodetected mouse device and protocol (as used by gpm) to standard output. It can be invoked so as to produce output appropriate for XFree86 X server configuration files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install mdetect

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

You can also use apt command to install mdetect.

sudo apt -y install mdetect

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

sudo aptitude install mdetect

Summary

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