software-properties-gtk command not found

Introduction

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

software-properties-gtk: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: software-properties-gtk: command not found

Solutions to software-properties-gtk: command not found

How To Fix software-properties-gtk: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu software-properties-gtk is provided by software-properties-gtk package.

software-properties-gtk is:

This software provides an abstraction of the used apt repositories. It allows you to easily manage your distribution and independent software vendor software sources.

This package contains a GTK+ based graphical interface.

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

sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-gtk

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

You can also use apt command to install software-properties-gtk.

sudo apt -y install software-properties-gtk

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

sudo aptitude install software-properties-gtk

Summary

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