mkalias command not found

Introduction

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

mkalias: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mkalias: command not found

Solutions to mkalias: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mkalias is provided by mkalias package.

mkalias is:

Mkalias helps users to create alias, list alias and remove then. All alias are saved on ~/.bashrc, creating an alias and a function to alias, all functions name have ‘mkalias’ prefixed, and the alias are added on end of ~/.bashrc file

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

sudo apt-get -y install mkalias

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

You can also use apt command to install mkalias.

sudo apt -y install mkalias

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

sudo aptitude install mkalias

Summary

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