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I've installed Ubuntu on an external drive and it don't see my USB dongle. I am a complete novice with things Ubuntu.

After doing some digging I found that step 1 was to run lsusb. But that set of instructions doesn't say what to do it lsusb command is not found.

Can I use my Windows Internet to download files, then boot in Ubuntu and copy and install stuff, or is ntfs a problem. And then what command lines to use. Maybe its to big a problem for a beginner and should find another disk from another magazine.

I tried 

sudo apt-get install usbutils

and got back 

Reading package lists... done   
Building dependancy tree   
Reading state information... done  
usbutils is already the newest version   
0 upgraded,  0 newly installed,  0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

it is still telling me command not found

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Use Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal and run the following command:

sudo apt-get install usbutils
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Ravan
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  • Ubuntu always has lsusb installed. The question means that there is some problem or it is not Ubuntu. – Pilot6 Sep 03 '15 at 14:50
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    Its saucy salamanda and i have other problems too, I remember something about corrupted files – fernny500 Sep 03 '15 at 15:03
  • Thanks Ravan, A B, and Pilot6 for the input, I havnt solved the problem yet, but your advice has been a good start. I get the feeling that if I can get my hotspot connection working, this issue may be solved more easily – fernny500 Sep 04 '15 at 07:16
  • there is also a brew package for osx for this now too: https://github.com/jlhonora/homebrew-lsusb – jsky Aug 04 '16 at 13:52