pkcon command not found

Introduction

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

pkcon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: pkcon: command not found

Solutions to pkcon: command not found

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

In Ubuntu pkcon is provided by packagekit-tools package.

packagekit-tools is:

PackageKit allows performing simple software management tasks over a DBus interface e.g. refreshing the cache, updating, installing and removing software packages or searching for multimedia codecs and file handlers.

This package provides the PackageKit command-line tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install packagekit-tools

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

You can also use apt command to install packagekit-tools.

sudo apt -y install packagekit-tools

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

sudo aptitude install packagekit-tools

Summary

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