wmget command not found

Introduction

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

wmget: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: wmget: command not found

Solutions to wmget: command not found

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

In Ubuntu wmget is provided by wmget package.

wmget is:

wmget is a dock app for the GNU Window Maker window manager (or one of the many other WM’s which support dockapps) which makes it more convenient to perform long downloads in the background. It uses the excellent libcurl library, part of the cURL automated-download program, to perform file retrieval.

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

sudo apt-get -y install wmget

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

You can also use apt command to install wmget.

sudo apt -y install wmget

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

sudo aptitude install wmget

Summary

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