add-shell command not found

Introduction

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

add-shell: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: add-shell: command not found

Solutions to add-shell: command not found

How To Fix add-shell: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu add-shell is provided by debianutils package.

debianutils is:

This package provides a number of small utilities which are used primarily by the installation scripts of Debian packages, although you may use them directly.

The specific utilities included are: add-shell installkernel ischroot remove-shell run-parts savelog tempfile update-shells which

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

sudo apt-get -y install debianutils

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

You can also use apt command to install debianutils.

sudo apt -y install debianutils

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

sudo aptitude install debianutils

Summary

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