whatmaps command not found

Introduction

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

whatmaps: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: whatmaps: command not found

Solutions to whatmaps: command not found

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

In Ubuntu whatmaps is provided by whatmaps package.

whatmaps is:

After package upgrades (especially security fixes), services using a shared library need to be restarted to make use of the updated version.

Whatmaps looks for shared objects provided by upgraded packages, lists any running processes that map them, and can integrate with APT to restart services as needed after security upgrades.

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

sudo apt-get -y install whatmaps

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

You can also use apt command to install whatmaps.

sudo apt -y install whatmaps

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

sudo aptitude install whatmaps

Summary

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