thefuck command not found

Introduction

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

thefuck: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: thefuck: command not found

Solutions to thefuck: command not found

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

In Ubuntu thefuck is provided by thefuck package.

thefuck is:

The Fuck attempts to fix user’s command line mistakes, by composing new commands applying a series of matching rules. It supports various shells, such as bash, fish, tcsh, and zsh.

The ‘sudo’ matching rule has been disabled for users’ safety.

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

sudo apt-get -y install thefuck

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

You can also use apt command to install thefuck.

sudo apt -y install thefuck

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

sudo aptitude install thefuck

Summary

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