---
name: "update-command-not-found"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "command-not-found"
version: "23.04.0-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/update-command-not-found"
---

# update-command-not-found(8)

update the command-not-found cache

## NAME

update-command-not-found - update the command-not-found cache

## SYNOPSIS

**update-command-not-found \[-h\|--help\|-n\|--no-apt-file\]**

## DESCRIPTION

**update-command-not-found** updates the cache (databases) for command-not-found using the files in /var/cache/apt/apt-file, which are fetched by apt-file.

## OPTIONS

- **-h or --help**

  Print the help message

- **-n or --no-apt-file**

  Do not run apt-file update before updating the cache.

## AUTHOR

command-not-found was written by Zygmunt Krynicki, update-command-not-found  was written by Julian Andres Klode \<jak@debian.org\>

This manual page was written by Julian Andres Klode \<jak@debian.org\> for the Debian project, but may be used by others.