popcon command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix popcon command not found error message

Introduction

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

popcon: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: popcon: command not found

In Ubuntu popcon is provided by python3-popcon package.

python3-popcon is:

This package provides the popcon module for Python 3 and the popcon CLI, which allows one to query Debian’s Popularity Contest data.

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

sudo apt-get -y install python3-popcon

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

You can also use apt command to install python3-popcon.

sudo apt -y install python3-popcon

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

sudo aptitude install python3-popcon

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