autoreconf-dickey command not found

Introduction

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

autoreconf-dickey: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: autoreconf-dickey: command not found

Solutions to autoreconf-dickey: command not found

How To Fix autoreconf-dickey: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu autoreconf-dickey is provided by autoconf-dickey package.

autoconf-dickey is:

This hacked version of autoconf is required to bootstrap ncurses and some other packages maintained upstream by Thomas Dickey. It should not be used for other purposes.

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

sudo apt-get -y install autoconf-dickey

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

You can also use apt command to install autoconf-dickey.

sudo apt -y install autoconf-dickey

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

sudo aptitude install autoconf-dickey

Summary

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