scp-dbus-service command not found

Introduction

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

scp-dbus-service: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: scp-dbus-service: command not found

Solutions to scp-dbus-service: command not found

How To Fix scp-dbus-service: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu scp-dbus-service is provided by system-config-printer-common package.

system-config-printer-common is:

System-config-printer is a GUI written in Python using GTK+ to configure a CUPS server. Its primary use is to configure the printing system on the local host, but can also be used to setup a remote printer.

In terms of features, it aims to be as complete as the CUPS web administration tool, while being integrated to the desktop.

This package contains the backend and the translation files for system-config-printer

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

sudo apt-get -y install system-config-printer-common

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

You can also use apt command to install system-config-printer-common.

sudo apt -y install system-config-printer-common

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

sudo aptitude install system-config-printer-common

Summary

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