purple-url-handler command not found

Introduction

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

purple-url-handler: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: purple-url-handler: command not found

Solutions to purple-url-handler: command not found

How To Fix purple-url-handler: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu purple-url-handler is provided by libpurple-bin package.

libpurple-bin is:

This package contains the utilities not included in the main libpurple0 package. Currently included are: purple-remote, purple-send, purple-send-async, and purple-url-handler.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libpurple-bin

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

You can also use apt command to install libpurple-bin.

sudo apt -y install libpurple-bin

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

sudo aptitude install libpurple-bin

Summary

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