synaptic command not found

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

Introduction

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

synaptic: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: synaptic: command not found

Solutions to synaptic: command not found

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

In Ubuntu synaptic is provided by synaptic package.

synaptic is:

Synaptic is a graphical package management tool based on GTK+ and APT. Synaptic enables you to install, upgrade and remove software packages in a user friendly way.

Besides these basic functions the following features are provided:

  • Search and filter the list of available packages
  • Perform smart system upgrades
  • Fix broken package dependencies
  • Edit the list of used repositories (sources.list)
  • Download the latest changelog of a package
  • Configure packages through the debconf system
  • Browse all available documentation related to a package (dwww is required)

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

sudo apt-get -y install synaptic

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

You can also use apt command to install synaptic.

sudo apt -y install synaptic

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

sudo aptitude install synaptic

Summary

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