aptitude-changelog-parser command not found

Introduction

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

aptitude-changelog-parser: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: aptitude-changelog-parser: command not found

Solutions to aptitude-changelog-parser: command not found

How To Fix aptitude-changelog-parser: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu aptitude-changelog-parser is provided by aptitude-common package.

aptitude-common is:

aptitude is a package manager with a number of useful features, including: a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, dselect-like persistence of user actions, the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get.

This package contains the data files and translations used by aptitude.

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

sudo apt-get -y install aptitude-common

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

You can also use apt command to install aptitude-common.

sudo apt -y install aptitude-common

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

sudo aptitude install aptitude-common

Summary

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