whoopsie-preferences command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix whoopsie-preferences command not found error message

Introduction

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

whoopsie-preferences: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: whoopsie-preferences: command not found

In Ubuntu whoopsie-preferences is provided by whoopsie-preferences package.

whoopsie-preferences is:

This package provides an interface for system preferences dialogs to control error reporting.

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

sudo apt-get -y install whoopsie-preferences

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

You can also use apt command to install whoopsie-preferences.

sudo apt -y install whoopsie-preferences

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

sudo aptitude install whoopsie-preferences

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