update-pciids command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix update-pciids command not found error message

Introduction

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

update-pciids: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: update-pciids: command not found

In Ubuntu update-pciids is provided by pciutils package.

pciutils is:

This package contains various utilities for inspecting and setting of devices connected to the PCI bus.

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

sudo apt-get -y install pciutils

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

You can also use apt command to install pciutils.

sudo apt -y install pciutils

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

sudo aptitude install pciutils

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