prename command not found

Introduction

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

prename: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: prename: command not found

Solutions to prename: command not found

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

In Ubuntu prename is provided by rename package.

rename is:

This package provides both a perl interface for renaming files (File::Rename) and a command line tool ‘rename’ which is intended to replace the version that used to be supplied by the perl package.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rename

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

You can also use apt command to install rename.

sudo apt -y install rename

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

sudo aptitude install rename

Summary

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