qgit command not found

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

Introduction

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

qgit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: qgit: command not found

Solutions to qgit: command not found

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

In Ubuntu qgit is provided by qgit package.

qgit is:

With qgit you will be able to browse revision tree, view patch content and changed files, graphically following different development branches. Main features:

  • View revisions, diffs, files history, files annotation, archive tree.
  • Commit changes visually cherry picking modified files.
  • Apply or format patch series from selected commits, drag and drop commits between two instances of qgit.
  • qgit implements a GUI for the most common StGIT commands like push/pop and apply/format patches. You can also create new patches or refresh current top one using the same semantics of git commit, i.e. cherry picking single modified files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install qgit

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

You can also use apt command to install qgit.

sudo apt -y install qgit

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

sudo aptitude install qgit

Summary

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