surf command not found

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

Introduction

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

surf: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: surf: command not found

Solutions to surf: command not found

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

In Ubuntu surf is provided by surf package.

surf is:

surf is a simple web browser based on WebKit/GTK+. It is able to display websites and follow links. It supports the XEmbed protocol which makes it possible to embed it in another application. Furthermore, one can point surf to another URI by setting its XProperties.

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

sudo apt-get -y install surf

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

You can also use apt command to install surf.

sudo apt -y install surf

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

sudo aptitude install surf

Summary

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