units_cur command not found

Introduction

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

units_cur: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: units_cur: command not found

Solutions to units_cur: command not found

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

In Ubuntu units_cur is provided by units package.

units is:

GNU ‘units’ program converts quantities expressed in various scales to their equivalents in other scales. The ‘units’ program can only handle multiplicative scale changes directly. It uses a functional notation for non-proportional conversions such a Fahrenheit temperature to Celsius temperature.

This package includes the units_cur script to update currency conversion information; this script requires a Python 3 interpreter and the python3-requests library.

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

sudo apt-get -y install units

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

You can also use apt command to install units.

sudo apt -y install units

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

sudo aptitude install units

Summary

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