bls-standalone command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix bls-standalone command not found error message

Introduction

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

bls-standalone: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bls-standalone: command not found

In Ubuntu bls-standalone is provided by bls-standalone package.

bls-standalone is:

This package includes stand-alone version of the build-log-scanner as found on http://qa.debian.org/bls/.

It includes the scanning engine and (hopefully not too outdated) rules to check for and a helper script to better read the results.

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

sudo apt-get -y install bls-standalone

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

You can also use apt command to install bls-standalone.

sudo apt -y install bls-standalone

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

sudo aptitude install bls-standalone

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