qaptworker3 command not found

Introduction

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

qaptworker3: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qaptworker3: command not found

Solutions to qaptworker3: command not found

How To Fix qaptworker3: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu qaptworker3 is provided by libqapt3-runtime package.

libqapt3-runtime is:

LibQApt is a Qt wrapper around the libapt-pkg library as well as an APT implementation using libapt-pkg. The aim is to provide a sane API for package management to ease the development of package managers written in Qt and C++

This package contains the runtime components necessary for applications using the QApt library to run.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libqapt3-runtime

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

You can also use apt command to install libqapt3-runtime.

sudo apt -y install libqapt3-runtime

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

sudo aptitude install libqapt3-runtime

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix qaptworker3 command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.