rover command not found

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

Introduction

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

rover: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: rover: command not found

Solutions to rover: command not found

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

In Ubuntu rover is provided by rover package.

rover is:

Rover is a text-based light-weight frontend for update-alternatives, which is inspired by the ranger file browser. Compared to existing graphical frontends such as galternatives and kalternatives, Rover still has the following advantages:

  1. User doesn’t need to move hand off the keyboard.
  2. Zero GUI overhead, and not bound to graphical environment.
  3. Supports searching by substring or Python regex.

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

sudo apt-get -y install rover

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

You can also use apt command to install rover.

sudo apt -y install rover

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

sudo aptitude install rover

Summary

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