qapt-deb-installer command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix qapt-deb-installer command not found error message

Introduction

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

qapt-deb-installer: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qapt-deb-installer: command not found

Solutions to qapt-deb-installer: command not found

How To Fix qapt-deb-installer: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu qapt-deb-installer is provided by qapt-deb-installer package.

qapt-deb-installer is:

QApt is a collection of tools and a library providing a wrapper around APT. The intention is to ease the use of APT in Qt-based programs.

The QApt deb installer allows you to install local .deb files. The QApt Deb Installer resolves and downloads dependencies. The APT package manager does the same, but only for remote packages.

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

sudo apt-get -y install qapt-deb-installer

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

You can also use apt command to install qapt-deb-installer.

sudo apt -y install qapt-deb-installer

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

sudo aptitude install qapt-deb-installer

Summary

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