mkrc command not found

Introduction

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

mkrc: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mkrc: command not found

Solutions to mkrc: command not found

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

In Ubuntu mkrc is provided by rcm package.

rcm is:

rcm is a suite of tools to manage rc files (dotfiles). The tools keep dotfiles in a single directory, managing symlinks to them from (or copies of them in) other directories. rcm supports tagging rc files and splitting them by hostname. It also can generate a bootstrapping script for use a new machine.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rcm

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

You can also use apt command to install rcm.

sudo apt -y install rcm

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

sudo aptitude install rcm

Summary

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