system-tools-backends command not found

Introduction

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

system-tools-backends: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: system-tools-backends: command not found

Solutions to system-tools-backends: command not found

How To Fix system-tools-backends: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu system-tools-backends is provided by system-tools-backends package.

system-tools-backends is:

The System Tools Backends are a set of cross-platform scripts for Linux and other Unix systems. The backends provide a standard XML interface for modifying the configuration regardless of the distribution that’s being used.

These backends are used in GNOME System Tools.

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

sudo apt-get -y install system-tools-backends

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

You can also use apt command to install system-tools-backends.

sudo apt -y install system-tools-backends

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

sudo aptitude install system-tools-backends

Summary

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